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The Natural History of British Imperialism - Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World. By Richard Drayton. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi+346. $40.00 (cloth). - Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. By John Gascoigne. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. vii+247. $64.95 (cloth).

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Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World. By Richard Drayton. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xxi+346. $40.00 (cloth).

Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution. By John Gascoigne. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. vii+247. $64.95 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Joyce Chaplin
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Harvard University

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