Science on the Roof of the World

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-12311-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

Reihe: Science in History

When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientific and environmental order. Lachlan Fleetwood traces untold stories of scientific measurement and collecting, indigenous labour and expertise, and frontier-making to provide the first comprehensive account of the East India Company's imperial entanglements with the Himalaya. To make the Himalaya knowable and globally comparable, he demonstrates that it was necessary to erase both dependence on indigenous networks and scientific uncertainties, offering an innovative way of understanding science's global history, and showing how geographical features like mountains can serve as scales for new histories of empire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleetwood, Lachlan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Measuring Mountains; 2. Unstable Instruments; 3. Suffering Bodies; 4. Frozen Relics; 5. Higher Gardens; 6. Vertical Limits; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Fleetwood, Lachlan
Lachlan Fleetwood is a research fellow at University College Dublin.