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Michael A. Osborne, Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. xvi + 216. ISBN 0-253-34266-X. £32.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Michael Heffernan
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Loughborough University

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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1996

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1 See, for example, Palladino, Paolo and Worboys, Michael, ‘Science and imperialism’, Isis (1993), 84, 91102.Google Scholar

2 For opening statements in different contexts, see Anderson, Kay, ‘Culture and nature at the Adelaide Zoo: at the frontiers of “human” geography’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (1995), 20, 275–94CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Philo, Chris, ‘Animals, geography and the city: notes on inclusions and exclusions’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (1995), 13, 655–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 For an excellent account of the La Villette slaughterhouse, see Pick, Daniel, War Machine, New Haven, 1993, 178–88.Google Scholar

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