Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion /

Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion / / ed. by Arndt Brendecke, Stefan Ehrenpreis, Susanne Friedrich.

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic consequences in the fields of historiogr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Brendecke, Arndt,
Ehrenpreis, Stefan,
Fischer-Kattner, Anke,
Friedrich, Susanne,
Groesen, Michiel van,
Ishizu, Mina,
Noak, Bettina,
Rietbergen, Peter,
Roberts, Lissa,
Schmidt, Benjamin,
Singh, Anjana,
Valeriani, Simona,
HerausgeberIn:
Brendecke, Arndt,
Ehrenpreis, Stefan,
Friedrich, Susanne,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Pluralisierung & Autorität , 44
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Physical Description:1 online resource (257 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Re-Orienting the Transformation of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion: Nagasaki as a Centre of Accumulation and Management
  • Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan and Europe: Transformations and Parallel Developments
  • Empiricism and Image-Building: The Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge on Dutch Brazil 1636–1750
  • Arnoldus Montanus, Dutch Brazil, and the Re-Emergence of Cannibalism
  • Knowledge Products and their Transmediations: Dutch Geography and the Transformation of the World
  • Transformations and Transformativity of Knowledge: François Le Vaillant’s Travelogues from the Dutch Cape Colony
  • Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Malabar and the Netherlands: A Review of Van Reede’s Hortus Malabaricus
  • Under the Spell of Curiositas: Wouter Schouten (1638–1704) as Ethnologist and Natural Scientist
  • Before the Bible, beyond the Bible…? VOC Travelogues, World Views and the Paradigms of Christian Europe
  • Index

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