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Empire and Science in the Making: Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2013
ISBN
1137334010, 9781137334015
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1205345 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Pages
321\321
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-04-12 21:22:48

Description

By the dawn of the 19th century, the Netherlands had established colonies and trading posts across Asia and the rest of the world, linking them directly to international networks of intellectual exchange and production. 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. The results are of significant interest for historians, anthropologists, geographers, scholars of the history and philosophy of science.

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