Moritz von Brescius

German Science in the Age of Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 772g
• ISBN-13: 9781108427326
• ISBN-10: 1108427324
• Artikelnr.: 54308026

Autorenporträt

Moritz von Brescius, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bern and Fellow of the Munich Centre for Global History, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: empires of opportunity
1. Entering the company service: Anglo-German networks and the Schlagintweit mission to Asia
2. Imperial recruitment and transnational science in India
3. An ingenious management of patronage communities
4. Making science in the field: a Eurasian expedition on the move
5. The inner life of a 'European' expedition: cultural encounters and multiple hierarchies
6. Contested exploration and the Indian Rebellion: the fateful year 1857
7. The Schlagintweit collections, India museums, and the tensions of German museology
8. Asymmetric reputations: memories of exploration and German colonial enterprise
Conclusion.