List of Figures Preface Introduction 1. Apostles of Enlightenment 2. Quinine Science 3.Treub's Beautiful Science 4. Ethical Professionals 5. The Nationalists' Enlightenment 6. Van Mook's Technocracy 7. Desk Science Conclusion
Andrew Goss is assistant professor of history at the University of New Orleans.
"A marvelously crisp, subtle, and insightful vision of the
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postcolonial authority and the society it blanketed. It is
beautifully and sensitively researched, making fruitful,
intelligent use of stubborn Dutch colonial and scientific archives
and numerous other sources."--R. E. Elson, Journal of American
History
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well written."--Eric Tagliacozzo, author of Secret Trades, Porous
Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier,
1865-1915
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the gospel of enlightenment, progress, and science."--Ann Laura
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Intimate in Colonial Rule
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and institutions in Indonesia since the nineteenth century. . . .
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by anyone interested in colonial history, science and modern
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Asia."--Timothy P. Barnard, The Journal of Southeast Asian
Studies
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between various experts of nature and the colonial and
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