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Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires : A Decentered View / edited by L. Kontler, A. Romano, S. Sebastiani, B. Török.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History, 2945-6649
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History, Modern.
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- Imperialism.
- Europe--History--1492-.
- Historiography.
- History--Methodology.
- History.
- World history.
- Modern History.
- European History.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- History of Early Modern Europe.
- Historiography and Method.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Local Subjects:
- Modern History.
- European History.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- History of Early Modern Europe.
- Historiography and Method.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg, Iberian, French and British empires, as well as China, contributors seize the spatial dynamics of the scientific enterprise.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction*
- Part I Negotiation of (Trans-)Imperial Patronage
- 1 Was Astronomy the Science of Empires? An Eighteenth-Century Debate in View of the Cases of Tycho and Galileo
- 2 The Jesuits' Negotiation of Science between France and China (1685-1722): Knowledge and Modes of Imperial Expansion
- 3 The Uses of Knowledge and the Symbolic Map of the Enlightened Monarchy of the Habsburgs: Maximilian Hell as Imperial and Roya
- Part II Competition of Empires: A Motor of Change in Knowledge Acquisition and Authentication
- 4 Capitalizing Manuscripts, Confronting Empires: Anquetil-Duperron and the Economy of Oriental Knowledge in the Context of the
- 5 Contested Locations of Knowledge: The Malaspina Expedition along the Eastern Coast of Patagonia (1789)*
- 6 "To Round Out this Immense Country": The Circulation of Cartographic and Historiographical Knowledge between Brazil and Angol
- Part III Self-assertion of New Nodes of Knowledge Production
- 7 Mexico, an American Hub in the Making of European China in the Seventeenth Century
- 8 Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World
- 9 Measuring the Strength of a State: Staatenkunde in Hungary around 1800
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781349503339
- 1349503339
- 9781137484017
- 1137484012
- OCLC:
- 898865501
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