EAN: 9783030226411

CAMBRIDGE IMPERIAL AND POST-COLONIAL STUDIES ...

This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber  a British-born settler scientist
who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of
subjects within the history of knowledge and science  gender and social history  postcolonial 
critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the
life and works of a marginalized scientist  the instrumentalisation of science to settlers'
political concerns and reveals the pivotal but largely silenced contribution of indigenous
African experts. Including a variety of material  visual and textual sources  this study
explores how these artefacts are archived and displayed in museums and critically analyses
their content and silences. The book traces Barber's legacy across three continents in
collections and archives  offering insights into the politics of memory and history-making. At
the same time  it forges a nuanced argument  incorporating study of the North and South  the
history of science and social history  and the past and the present.

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