Negotiating knowledge in early modern empires
| Titel: | Negotiating knowledge in early modern empires : a decentered view / ed. by László Kontler ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 273 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history |
| ISBN: | 1137483997 ; 9781137483997 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Cover |
X
- List of Contributors
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 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
- p. 25
- 2
- The Jesuits' Negotiation of Science between France and China (1685-1722): Knowledge and Modes of Imperial Expansion
- p. 53
- 3
- The Uses of Knowledge and the Symbolic Map of the Enlightened Monarchy of the Habsburgs: Maximilian Hell as Imperial and Royal Astronomer (1755-1792)
- p. 79
- 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 Seven Years' War
- p. 109
- 5
- Contested Locations of Knowledge: The Malaspina Expedition along the Eastern Coast of Patagonia (1789)
- p. 129
- 6
- "To Round Out this Immense Country": The Circulation of Cartographic and Historiographical Knowledge between Brazil and Angola in the Eighteenth Century
- p. 153
- 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
- p. 181
- 8
- Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World
- p. 207
- 9
- Measuring the Strength of a State: Staaterikunde in Hungary around 1800
- p. 235
- Index
- p. 263
