Towards a Transimperial History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Africa Ghent University
Inspired by the paradigmatic shifts of both transnational and global history, historians have, in recent years, begun to question the methodological nationalism and the exceptionalist discourses pervading the history of colonialism and imperialism. They argue that empires were not closed entities in which ideas, knowledge and practices were only generated in the metropole or, during the colonial encounter, in the colonies – nor did they only ...