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Relocating modern science : circulation and the construction of knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900
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ISBN: 9780230238503 0230507085 9780230507081 0230238505 9786610825882 128082588X 0230625312 Year: 2007 Publisher: Houndmills ; New York Palgrave Macmillan

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Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the history of science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.

Taking on the world's repressive regimes : the Ford Foundation's international human rights policies and practices
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ISBN: 9781403961716 9780230608740 1281737291 9786611737290 0230608744 9781349526581 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Palgrave Macmillan

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A study of the Ford Foundation's support and of funding of human rights projects and NGOs, illuminating its extraordinary role in helping undermine and destroy major world repressive authoritarian and totalitarian regimes during the latter part of the twentieth century.

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