‘Africa Forms the Key’ Alex Du Toit and the History of Continental Drift /

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي:	Chetty, Suryakanthie (مؤلف)
مؤلف مشترك:	SpringerLink (Online service)
الملخص:	XI, 271 p. 6 illus. text
اللغة:	الإنجليزية
منشور في:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
الطبعة:	1st ed. 2021.
سلاسل:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,
الموضوعات:	Science > History. Africa, Sub-Saharan > History. Imperialism. Intellectual life > History. History of Science. History of Sub-Saharan Africa. Imperialism and Colonialism. Intellectual History.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52711-2
التنسيق:	الكتروني كتاب الكتروني

جدول المحتويات:

1 Introduction
2 In the Beginning…: Geology in South Africa and the Early Years of Alex Du Toit.-3 A World in a Grain of Sand: A Brief History of Geology and the Origins of Continental Drift Theory
4 Bedrock: Geology and the Shaping of a Nation
5 On the Shoulders of Giants: Early Drift Theorists
6 Looking Through … the Keyhole of Nature: Du Toit and Early Continental Drift
7 And Yet It Moves…: Du Toit’s South American Journey
8 The Cradle of Humankind: A Pivotal Decade for Science in South Africa
9 Our Wandering Continents: Du Toit’s Definitive Work, Controversy and Consensus
10 A Frozen History of the Past: Antarctica, Gondwana and an Unfulfilled Dream
11 The Final Years
12 Pale Blue Dot: Conclusions.

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