Shaping Natural History and Settler Society: Mary Elizabeth Barber and the Nineteenth-Century Cape - Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies 1st ed. 2019 edition

This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies.