Imperial unknowns : the French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750 / Cornel Zwierlein (Bochum University, Germany).

Author
Zwierlein, Cornel [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description
xiii, 400 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

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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.
    ISBN
    • 9781107166448 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
    • 1107166446 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016038552
    OCLC
    966667945
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