Imperial unknowns : the French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750 / Cornel Zwierlein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zwierlein, Cornel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of--History--17th century.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Knowledge, Sociology of--History--18th century.

French.

History.

British.

Mediterranean Region--History--1517-1789.

Mediterranean Region.

British--Mediterranean Region--History.

French--Mediterranean Region--History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 400 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.

Contents:

Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Conventions; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; History of Empires, History of Ignorance; Actors, Institutions, Places, Period; Terminology and the Questions a History of Ignorance Asks; Disclaimers: The Author's Ignorances; 1 Politics and Economy: Nationalizing Economics; The Constructive Power of Non-Knowledge; Norms as Specifiers of National Non-Knowledge; Baldus versus Grotius: Conceiving the Empires and Their Unknowns; Conclusion: Operative National Non-Knowledge

2 Religion: Empires Ignoring, Learning, Forgetting ReligionsEntangling Powers of Non-Knowledge between West and East (Greek Church, Samaritans, Phoenicians); English Chaplains versus French State Catholicism: Conditions and Functions of Non-Knowledge Communication; Comparison and Conclusion; 3 History: How to Cope with Unconscious Ignorance; The Forgotten Arabic Middle Ages; Growing Awareness; Structure Replaces Content; Standardization and Spatialization; Conclusion; 4 Science: Mediterranean Empires and Scientific Unknowns; From Avicenna to the Queries of the Royal Society (1692)

Enlightened FalsificationsFrom Natural History to Nation's History; Conclusion: Scientific Unknowns and the Mediterranean; Conclusion; Historicizing Ignorance, Synchronizing Empires; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107166448

1107166446

OCLC:

960436164