Imperial Unknowns: The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750

ISBN-13: 9781316617502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 414 str.

Cornel Zwierlein

Opis

This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.

Recenzje

'This study demonstrates in an impressive way and with a stupendous [or amazing] erudition [or scholarship] that the question for forms of ignorance and how men and women of the past were coping with the borders of their knowledge can lead to new research questions.' Mark Häberlein, translated from Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung

Spis treści

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.