Shaping Natural History and Settler Society : Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape.

Shaping Natural History and Settler Society -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Reference -- Praise for Shaping Natural History and Settler Society -- Abbreviations -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The History of Science in a Colonial Context -- White Women in the Historiography of Science in a (Settler) Colonial Context -- Research Approach -- Archives and Sources -- Overview -- References -- Part I: African Experts and Science in the Cape -- Chapter 2: African Farmers and Medicinal Plant Experts -- Co-operation in Farming the Land -- Living with Plants -- Veterinary Plant Knowledge -- Wagon Drivers' Knowledge Creation -- Diviners' and Herbalists' Co-operation and Resistance -- Barber and Her Brothers' Social Darwinism -- References -- Chapter 3: African Naturalists, Collectors and Taxidermists -- Collectors As Companions -- Informants As Providers of 'Soft Facts' -- Taxidermists and Their Impact on Ornithology -- References -- Part II: From Providing Data to Forging New Practices and Theories -- Chapter 4: Gender, Class and Competition -- Safeguarding Patriarchal Metropolitan Privileges in Botany -- How Barber's Local Lepidopterist Network Lent Her Wings -- The Marginalisation of the First South African Woman Ornithologist -- Collaboration and Competition Among Women Scientists at the Cape -- References -- Chapter 5: Proving and Circulating the Theory of Natural Selection -- Barber Becomes a Darwinist -- Barber's Corroborative Evidence for Natural Selection -- Butterfly Mimicry and the Birth of a New Research Field -- Sexual Selection and Women's Position in Society -- References -- Chapter 6: Barber's Forging Scientific Practices and Theories -- Shaping New Ornithological Practices -- Barber's Theories -- Butterflies Named After Xhosa Chiefs: From Visual Similarity to Visible Concealment -- References.

Part III: Negotiating Belonging Through Science -- Chapter 7: Arguing with Artefacts, Biofacts and Organisms: Barber's Advocacy for 1820 Settlers' Supremacy and Land Rights -- Barber's Construction of Africans -- Barber's Use of Metaphors to Emphasise Afrikaners' Inferiority -- Thinking with Plants: Barber's Hostility Towards Australians/Britons and Botanical Nationalism -- Reasoning with Artefacts and Biofacts: Theories for Appropriating Territory -- References -- Chapter 8: Barber's World of Birds As a Space of Gender Equality -- Egalitarian Parenting and Biological Equality -- Barber's Opinion Regarding the Institution of Marriage -- Barber on Birds, Platonic Friendships and Alternative Relationships to Marriage -- Advocacy for the Protection of Birds and the Rights of Women -- Barber and the Rights of African Women -- References -- Chapter 9: Colonial Legacies in Post-Colonial Collections -- 'Screen Memories' and 'Anachronistic Space' in Museum Displays -- Digital Plant Collections and Privatisation of Knowledge -- References -- Chapter 10: 'The fragments that are left behind' -- References -- Untitled -- Correction to: Shaping Natural History and Settler Society -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- South Africa -- History Museum, Albany Museum Complex, Grahamstown (HM) -- The Selmar Schonland Herbarium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown -- Cory Library (CL), Rhodes University, Grahamstown -- University of Cape Town (UCT), Special Collections, Manuscripts and Archives -- Bolus Herbarium, UCT -- National Library South Africa, Cape Town -- Western Cape Archives and Records Service, Cape Town -- Amazyana Archive, Tongaat Hulett Sugar Company, Private Estate -- KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Archive and Library, Pietermaritzburg -- United Kingdom -- Kew Library, Arts and Archives (KLAA), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.

The Linnean Society of London, Library &amp -- Archives -- The Royal Entomological Society, Library, St Albans (RES) -- Natural History Museum, London, General Library, Owen Collection -- The Bristol Record Office -- Late Gareth Mitford-Barberton's Private Family Archive -- Alan Cohen's Private Archive -- Ireland -- Trinity College Dublin Herbarium (TCD) -- Book Repository, Trinity College Dublin -- Australia -- National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne (MEL) -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Online Archives -- Index.

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