In this major new study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication - as a fundamental trigger that sets knowledge in motion? Zwierlein explores whether the Scientific Revolution between 1650 and 1750 can be understood as just one of what were in fact many simultaneous epistemic movements and considers the role of the European empires in this phenomenon....
In this major new study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new ap...
This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.
This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenmen...
