Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires

A Decentered View

  • László Kontler
  • Antonella Romano
  • Silvia Sebastiani
  • Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
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Part of the Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History book series (CIH)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      László Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
      Pages 1-22

  3. Negotiation of (Trans-)Imperial Patronage

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 23-23
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    2. Was Astronomy the Science of Empires? An Eighteenth-Century Debate in View of the Cases of Tycho and Galileo
      Gábor Almási
      Pages 25-51
    3. The Jesuits’ Negotiation of Science between France and China (1685–1722): Knowledge and Modes of Imperial Expansion
      Catherine Jami
      Pages 53-77
    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
      Pages 79-105

  4. Competition of Empires: A Motor of Change in Knowledge Acquisition and Authentication

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 107-107
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    2. Capitalizing Manuscripts, Confronting Empires: Anquetil-Duperron and the Economy of Oriental Knowledge in the Context of the Seven Years’ War
      Stéphane Van Damme
      Pages 109-128
    3. Contested Locations of Knowledge: The Malaspina Expedition along the Eastern Coast of Patagonia (1789)
      Marcelo Fabián Figueroa
      Pages 129-151
    4. “To Round Out this Immense Country”: The Circulation of Cartographic and Historiographical Knowledge between Brazil and Angola in the Eighteenth Century
      Catarina Madeira-Santos
      Pages 153-177

  5. Self-assertion of New Nodes of Knowledge Production

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 179-179
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    2. Mexico, an American Hub in the Making of European China in the Seventeenth Century
      Antonella Romano
      Pages 181-206
    3. Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World
      Silvia Sebastiani
      Pages 207-233
    4. Measuring the Strength of a State: Staatenkunde in Hungary around 1800
      Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
      Pages 235-261
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 263-273
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About this book

Introduction

This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg, Iberian, French and British empires, as well as China, contributors seize the spatial dynamics of the scientific enterprise.

Keywords

British Empire China empire Europe Expansion France Hungary

Editors and affiliations

  • László Kontler
    • 1
  • Antonella Romano
    • 2
    • 3
  • Silvia Sebastiani
    • 2
  • Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
    • 4
  1. 1.Central European UniversityBudapestHungary
  2. 2.École des hautes études en sciences socialesParisFrance
  3. 3.Centre Alexandre KoyréFrance
  4. 4.ZukunftskollegUniversity of KonstanzGermany

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137484017
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-50333-9
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-48401-7
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