Were Nineteenth-Century Natural Sciences Global? The Casus of Charles Darwin
In my paper I refute Arjun Appadurai’s assertion that one can speak of the global character of phenomena only in reference to the twentieth century. I defend a thesis that nineteenth century English natural science satisfies the basic criteria of ‘globality’ as defined by Appadurai. I analyze the work of Charles Darwin (until 1859) as a typical representative of nineteenth-century English natural science.
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