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Boomgaard

Empire and Science in the Making

Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-137-33401-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us
Erscheinungstermin: 25.10.2013
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781137334015
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-33401-5
  • Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us
  • Erscheinungstermin: 25.10.2013
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2013. Auflage 2013
  • Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 5023 g
  • Seiten: 315
  • Format (B x H x T): 140 x 218 x 23 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Introduction: From the Mundane to the Sublime: Science, Empire, and the Enlightenment, 1760s - 1820s; Peter Boomgaard 1. Science and the Colonial War-State: British India, 1790-1820; David Arnold 2. Collecting and the Pursuit of Scientific Accuracy: The Malaspina Expedition in the Philippines, 1792; Raquel Reyes 3. Empire without Science? The Dutch Scholarly World and Colonial Science around 1800; Klaas van Berkel 4. Why Was There no Javanese Galileo?; Gerry van Klinken 5. For the Common Good: Dutch Institutions and Western Scholarship on Indonesia around 1800; Peter Boomgaard 6. "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 7. A National Obligation: Archaeological Research and Regime Change in Java and the Netherlands in the Early Nineteenth Century; Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff 8. Meeting Point Deshima: Scholarly Communication between Japan and Europe to around 1800; Peter Rietbergen 9. The First Dutch Ethnographic Monograph: De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Lodewyk Alberti; Siegfried Huigen 10. Intellectual Wastelands? Scholarship in and for the Dutch West Indies up to ca. 1800; Gert Oostindie