Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940

by Lewis Pyenson

Drawing on sources in a dozen languages and archives on five continents, Lewis Pyenson examines how the practitioners of the "exact," as opposed to "descriptive," sciences performed in relative... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801844215
• ISBN13: 9780801844218
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"