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Empire and Science in the Making : Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830 / edited by P. Boomgaard.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Boomgaard, P., Editor.
Series:
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology, 2730-9738
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Civilization--History.
Civilization.
Europe--History.
Europe.
History, Modern.
Science--History.
Science.
Social history.
Imperialism.
Cultural History.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Science.
Social History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Local Subjects:
Cultural History.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Science.
Social History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (321 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2013.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.
Contents:
Introduction: From the Mundane to the Sublime : Science, Empire, and the Enlightenment, 1760s-1820s / Peter Boomgaard
Science and the Colonial War-State : British India, 1790-1820 / David Arnold
Collecting and the Pursuit of Scientific Accuracy : The Malaspina Expedition in the Philippines, 1792 / Raquel Reyes
Empire without Science? : The Dutch Scholarly World and Colonial Science around 1800 / Klaas van Berkel
Why Was There no Javanese Galileo? / Gerry van Klinken
For the Common Good : Dutch Institutions and Western Scholarship on Indonesia around 1800 / Peter Boomgaard
"A Religion that is Extremely Easy and Unusually Light to Take On" : Dutch and English Knowledge of Southeast Asian Islam, ca. 1595-1811 / Michael Laffan
A National Obligation : Archaeological Research and Regime Change in Java and the Netherlands in the Early Nineteenth Century / Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff
Meeting Point Deshima : Scholarly Communication between Japan and Europe to around 1800 / Peter Rietbergen
The First Dutch Ethnographic Monograph : De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Lodewyk Alberti / Siegfried Huigen
Intellectual Wastelands? : Scholarship in and for the Dutch West Indies up to ca. 1800 / Gert Oostindie.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781349462513
1349462519
9781137334022
1137334029
OCLC:
862905413

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