Negotiating knowledge in early modern empires : a decentered view / edited by László Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani, and Borbála Zsuzsanna Török.

"The contributions to this volume are united by a common interest in the practices that shaped 'science' in the early modern period, with a special emphasis on the ones bred by the emulation, competition, and conflict that encounters across the globe between different cultural and political entities...

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Uniform Title:Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
Other Authors: Kontler, László (Editor)
Romano, Antonella (Editor)
Sebastiani, Silvia (Editor)
Török, Borbála Zsuzsanna, 1972- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
Subjects:
Science > Europe > History > 17th century.
Science > Europe > History > 18th century.
Science > Asia > History > 17th century.
Science > Asia > History > 18th century.
Knowledge, Theory of > History.
Imperialism > History > 17th century.
Imperialism > History > 18th century.
Europe > Intellectual life.
Europe > Colonies > Intellectual life.
Asia > Intellectual life.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
HISTORY / Europe / General.
HISTORY / Historiography.
HISTORY / World.
Physical Description:xiv, 273 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / László Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani, and Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
  • 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 / Gábor Almási
  • 2. The Jesuits' Negotiation of Science between France and China (1685-1722) : Knowledge and Modes of Imperial Expansion / Catherine Jami
  • 3. The Uses of Knowledge and the Symbolic Map of the Enlightened Monarcy of the Habsburgs : Maximilian Hell as Imperial and Royal Astronomer (1755-1792) / László Kontler
  • 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's War / Stéphane Van Damme
  • 5. Contested Locations of Knowledge : The Malaspina Expedition along the Eastern Coast of Patagonia (1789) / Marcelo Fabián Figueroa
  • 6. "To Round Out this Immense Country" : The Circulation of Cartographic and Historiographical Knowledge from Brazil to Angola / Catarina Madeira-Santos
  • 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 / Antonella Romano
  • 8. Anthropology beyond Empires : Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World / Silvia Sebastiani
  • 9. Measuring the Strength of a State : Staatenkunde in Hungary around 1800 / Borbála Zsuzsanna Török.