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  1. An Ocean Apart: Meteorology and the Elusive Observatories of British Malaya.Fiona Williamson - 2023 - Isis 114 (4):710-724.
    Throughout the late nineteenth century, the British established observatories, meteorological posts, and stations across their burgeoning empire. These institutions and their networks were part of a global endeavor to map and understand the weather by collating vast quantities of data, and, it has been argued, they were also emblematic of imperial prowess and reach. In the Straits Settlements, however, unlike almost every other British colony, observatories came and went, and meteorology lacked central coordination and funding. This essay explores the reasons (...)
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  • Between orientalism and nationalism: The learned society and the making of “southeast asia”*: Su Lin Lewis.Su Lin Lewis - 2013 - Modern Intellectual History 10 (2):353-374.
    Departing from the “Orientalist” view of the learned society in South Asia, this paper examines the role of the learned society in Southeast Asia as a site of sociability and intellectual exchange. It traces the emergence of such societies as independent, rather than official, initiatives, from nineteenth-century societies in Singapore to the Siam Society and Burma Research Society in the early twentieth century. Their journals provided pluralist interpretations of the nation, turning from grand histories of kings to new practices of (...)
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  • On Machines, Self-Organization, and the Global Traveling of Knowledge, circa 1500–1900.Karel Davids - 2015 - Isis 106 (4):866-874.
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