Essays about: "Kim Vigstrand Solnevik"
Found 1 essay containing the words Kim Vigstrand Solnevik.
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1. On the Frail Edge of Humanity : Human Variety and the Exercise of Imperial Power Across the British Caribbean, 1700-1750
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : With the intention of analysing changes in natural history, human variation and the exercise of imperial power across the British Caribbean, this study poses the following questions: How did changes in natural history impact the understandings and applications of human variety, 1700–1750? How did natural history influence the exercise of imperial power in the British Caribbean? The study posits that there is a connection between natural history and imperial power. Through the contexts of the history of natural history and the history of fear, biopolitics acts as a theoretical framework wherethrough two themes of natural history, "spirits" and weaponry, are analysed using the travel writings of Hans Sloane, Henry Barham, Charles Leslie, Griffith Hughes and Patrick Browne. READ MORE
