The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present, Paperback/William Beinart - Cambridge University Press

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South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the Scientific Imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism.
In the nineteenth century, science became central to imperial conquest, devastating wars, agricultural intensification and the exploitation of rich mineral.
In the eighteenth century, South African plants and animals caught the Imagination of visiting Europeans.
South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the Scientific Imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism