Empire and Science in the Making: Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830 - Softcover
Buch 13 von 52: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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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
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