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Examine how Joseph Banks and institutional scientific networks supported British state policy and colonial expansion during the Age of Revolution.

January 1, 1999Albion A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies

John Gascoigne. Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. vii, 247. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-55069-6.

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Examine how Joseph Banks and institutional scientific networks supported British state policy and colonial expansion during the Age of Revolution.
Archival and historiographical analysis of British governmental records, institutional correspondence, and Royal Society proceedings during the late eighteenth century.
Identifies Sir Joseph Banks as an essential political broker aligning scientific inquiry directly with British imperial interests.
Details how economic botany and geographical mapping served military, agricultural, and commercial colonial expansion.

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Historical analysis explores scientific patronage under Joseph Banks in eighteenth-century Britain, highlighting the role of natural history in imperial expansion.

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John Gascoigne. Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. vii, 247. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-55069-6. - Volume 31 Issue 4

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Richard Connors (1999) studied this question.

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Historical analysis explores scientific patronage under Joseph Banks in eighteenth-century Britain, highlighting the role of natural history in imperial expansion.

John Gascoigne. Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. vii, 247. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-55069-6.

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John Gascoigne. Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State, and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. Pp. vii, 247. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-55069-6.

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