The Alchemy of Empire. Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism, Hardback/Rajani Sudan

The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, and forms of knowledge like inoculation, arguing that East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted. Publisher: Fordham University Press Author(s): Rajani Sudan Number of pages: 232 Publication date: 2016 Dimensions: 158 x 236 x 24 Cover type: Hardback