期刊全称 | ‘Africa Forms the Key’ | 期刊简称 | Alex Du Toit and the | 影响因子2023 | Suryakanthie Chetty | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Focuses on the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit.Contextualises Du Toit’s work within a formative period of South African science and a period of ideological struggles over space, | 学科分类 | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa and internationally. It contextualises Du Toit’s work within a particularly formative period of South African science, from the paleoanthropological discoveries that sparked debates about the origins of humankind to Jan Smuts’ own theory of holism. Beyond South African scientific discoveries, the book sets Du Toit’s work against a backdrop of ideological struggles over space, both domestically in terms of segregation and nationalism, as well as internationally as South Africa sought to assert its position within the Commonwealth. These debates were embodied by Du Toit’s work on the theory of continental drift, which put Africa – and South Africa – at the centre geologically and geographically. ..The author also focuses on the divisions in geology caused by drift theory, tracing the vigorous intellectual debate and dissent indicative of the ideological milieu within which scientific thought is constructed. It traces the history of continental drift from its inception in the nineteenth century and later wor | Pindex | Book 2021 |
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