Kontler, László
Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires
1. Introduction
László Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
Part I. Negotiation of (Trans-)Imperial Patronage
2. Was Astronomy the Science of Empires? An Eighteenth-Century Debate in View of the Cases of Tycho and Galileo
Gábor Almási
3. The Jesuits’ Negotiation of Science between France and China (1685–1722): Knowledge and Modes of Imperial Expansion
Catherine Jami
4. The Uses of Knowledge and the Symbolic Map of the Enlightened Monarchy 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
5. Capitalizing Manuscripts, Confronting Empires: Anquetil-Duperron and the Economy of Oriental Knowledge in the Context of the Seven Years’ War
Stéphane Damme
6. Contested Locations of Knowledge: The Malaspina Expedition along the Eastern Coast of Patagonia (1789)
Marcelo Fabián Figueroa
7. “To Round Out this Immense Country”: The Circulation of Cartographic and Historiographical Knowledge between Brazil and Angola in the Eighteenth Century
Catarina Madeira-Santos
Part III. Self-assertion of New Nodes of Knowledge Production
8. Mexico, an American Hub in the Making of European China in the Seventeenth Century
Antonella Romano
9. Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World
Silvia Sebastiani
10. Measuring the Strength of a State:
Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
Avainsanat: History, Modern History, European History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Early Modern Europe, Historiography and Method, World History, Global and Transnational History
- Toimittaja
- Kontler, László
- Romano, Antonella
- Sebastiani, Silvia
- Török, Borbála Zsuzsanna
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2014
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sarja
- Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
- Sivumäärä
- 287 sivua
- Kategoria
- Historia
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137484017
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-1-349-50333-9