The British Empire and the development of science in its colonies -- French science overseas -- The development of science in Portugal and colonial Latin America (Brazil) -- Science in the Ottoman world -- Against an empire : science in southeastern Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The birth of an empire : science in the United States during the nineteenth century -- The science of a lost empire and its internal colonies : the case of Russia -- The transmission of western chemistry into China, 1840-1900.