Cornel Zwierlein

Imperial Unknowns

The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750

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Produktbeschreibung

At the intersection of the history of knowledge and science, of European trade empires and the Mediterranean, this major empirical study presents a new method for understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 814g
• ISBN-13: 9781107166448
• ISBN-10: 1107166446
• Artikelnr.: 45154640

Autorenporträt

Cornel Zwierlein is a Professor in the Department of History at Bochum University, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. in 2003 at the University of Munich. From 2013 to 2015 he was a Fellow at Harvard University's History Department (Henkel/EU) and in 2014 was a Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Politics and economy: nationalizing economics
2. Religion: empires ignoring, learning, forgetting religions
3. History: how to cope with unconscious ignorance
4. Science: Mediterranean empires and scientific unknowns
Conclusion
Bibliography.