Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya

When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo...
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Author: Lachlan Fleetwood
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Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya by Fleetwood, Lachlan

Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya

$320.83

Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya

$320.83
Author: Lachlan Fleetwood
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Lachlan Fleetwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/12/2022
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781009123112


Review Citation(s):
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About the Author
Fleetwood, Lachlan: - Lachlan Fleetwood is a research fellow at University College Dublin.

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