Transformations of knowledge in Dutch expansion /

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In the 17th and 18th centuries, people, objects, and texts travelled around the world aboard Dutch ships. This book explores how these circulations transformed the knowledge in Asian and European societies. It focuses on epistemic changes in historiography, geography, religion, philosophy as well as...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Friedrich, Susanne (Editor), Brendecke, Arndt (Editor), Ehrenpreis, Stefan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2015]
Series:Pluralisierung & Autorität ; Bd. 44.
Subjects:
1600-1799
Geschichte Europas.
Germany.
Social Change.
Regions & Countries > Europe.
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
History & Archaeology.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Civilization.
Netherlands > Civilization > 17th century.
Netherlands > Civilization > 18th century.
Pays-Bas > Civilisation > 17e siècle.
Pays-Bas > Civilisation > 18e siècle.
Netherlands.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Brendecke, Arndt ; Friedrich, Susanne
  • Re-Orienting the Transformation of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion: Nagasaki as a Centre of Accumulation and Management / Roberts, Lissa
  • Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan and Europe: Transformations and Parallel Developments / Ishizu, Mina ; Valeriani, Simona
  • Empiricism and Image-Building: The Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge on Dutch Brazil 1636-1750 / Ehrenpreis, Stefan
  • Arnoldus Montanus, Dutch Brazil, and the Re-Emergence of Cannibalism / Groesen, Michiel van
  • Knowledge Products and their Transmediations: Dutch Geography and the Transformation of the World / Schmidt, Benjamin
  • Transformations and Transformativity of Knowledge: François Le Vaillant's Travelogues from the Dutch Cape Colony / Fischer-Kattner, Anke
  • Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Malabar and the Netherlands: A Review of Van Reede's Hortus Malabaricus / Singh, Anjana
  • Under the Spell of Curiositas: Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) as Ethnologist and Natural Scientist / Noak, Bettina
  • Before the Bible, beyond the Bible ...? VOC Travelogues, World Views and the Paradigms of Christian Europe / Rietbergen, Peter
  • Index.

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