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Imperial unknowns : the French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750 / Cornel Zwierlein (Bochum University, Germany).
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Zwierlein, Cornel
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description
xiii, 400 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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BD221 .Z85 2016
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Imperialism
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History
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East and West
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History
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Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
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History
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Science
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Mediterranean Region
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History
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Communication
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Mediterranean Region
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History
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France
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Relations
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Mediterranean Region
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Great Britain
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Relations
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Mediterranean Region
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Mediterranean Region
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Relations
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France
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Mediterranean Region
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Relations
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Great Britain
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Mediterranean Region
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Commerce
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History
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Summary note
This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-378) and index.
Contents
Politics and economy : nationalizing economics
The constructive power of non-knowledge
Baldus versus Grotius : conceiving the empires and their unknowns
Religion : empires ignoring, learning, forgetting religions
Entangling powers of non-knowledge between West and East (Greek Church, Samaritans, Phoenicians)
English chaplains versus French state Catholicism : conditions and functions of non-knowledge communication
History : how to cope with unconscious ignorance
The forgotten Arabic Middle Ages
Growing awareness; structure replaces content; standardization and spazialization
Science : Mediterranean empires and scientific unknowns
From Avicenna to the queries of the Royal Society
Enlightened falsifications
From natural history to nation's history.
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ISBN
9781107166448 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
1107166446 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016038552
OCLC
966667945
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