| Description |
xxxviii, 522 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Uppsala studies in history of science ; 35
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| Contents |
Frontier tales : Tokugawa Japan in translation / Robert Liss -- The Asiatic enlightenments of British astronomy / Simon Schaffer -- Mapping knowledge go-betweens in Calcutta, 1770-1820 / Kapil Raj -- Friendship and knowledge : correspondence and communication in northern trans-Atlantic natural history, 1780-1815 / Margaret Meredith -- Full steam ahead : entrepreneurial engineers as go-betweens during the late eighteenth century / Lissa Roberts -- Spies, dyes and leaves : agro-intermediaries, Luso-Brazilian couriers, and the worlds they sowed / Neil Safier -- Fugitive colours : shamans' knowledge, chemical empire and Atlantic revolutions / James Delbourgo -- Across nations and ages : the Creole collector and the many lives of the Megatherium / Juan Pimentel -- Self preservation : French travels between Cuisine and Industrie / Emma Spary -- Boundary-crossings, cultural encounters and knowledge spaces in early Australia / David Turnbull -- Between a rock and a hard place : some afterthoughts / Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
| Summary |
Collection of essays focusing on the roles of intermediaries such as brokers and spies, messengers and translators, missionaries and entrepreneurs, in linking different parts of the ever more densely entangled systems of knowledge production and circulation at a key moment in the development of global scientific, commercial and political systems. The period 1770-1820 was decisive for the reformation of imperial projects in the wake of military catastrophe and politico-economic crisis, both in the Atlantic and the Asian/Pacific spheres -- economic and political worlds dominated by complex trade systems and violent contest. This conjuncture also saw the overhaul of networks and institutions of natural knowledge, whether commercial, voluntary or organs of state. Both the industrial and the second scientific revolutions have been dated to this moment. New and decisive relations were forged between different cultures' knowledge carriers. The authors consider knowledge movements of the epoch that escape simple models of metropolitan centre and remote colonial periphery. They question the immutable character of mediators and agents in knowledge communication |
| Analysis |
interculturele communicatie |
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intercultural communication |
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kennis |
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knowledge |
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communicatie |
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communication |
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informatieverspreiding |
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diffusion of information |
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kennisoverdracht |
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knowledge transfer |
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intercultureel onderzoek |
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cross cultural studies |
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wereld |
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world |
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geschiedenis |
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history |
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Knowledge Exchange |
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Kennisuitwisseling |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Intercultural communication -- History
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Mediation -- History
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15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
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Society.
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Intercultural communication.
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Mediation.
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Kulturkontakt
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Wissensproduktion
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Vermittlung Motiv
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Know-how-Transfer
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Intermediairen.
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Interculturele communicatie.
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Intermediairen.
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Interculturele communicatie.
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Kulturkontakt.
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Vermittlung.
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Intercultural communication -- History.
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Mediation -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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History.
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| Author |
Schaffer, Simon, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2009032023 |
| ISBN |
9780881353747 |
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0881353744 |
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