| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Conventions; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; History of Empires, History of Ignorance; Actors, Institutions, Places, Period; Terminology and the Questions a History of Ignorance Asks; Disclaimers: The Author's Ignorances; 1 Politics and Economy: Nationalizing Economics; The Constructive Power of Non-Knowledge; Norms as Specifiers of National Non-Knowledge; Baldus versus Grotius: Conceiving the Empires and Their Unknowns; Conclusion: Operative National Non-Knowledge. |
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2 Religion: Empires Ignoring, Learning, Forgetting ReligionsEntangling Powers of Non-Knowledge between West and East (Greek Church, Samaritans, Phoenicians); English Chaplains versus French State Catholicism: Conditions and Functions of Non-Knowledge Communication; Comparison and Conclusion; 3 History: How to Cope with Unconscious Ignorance; The Forgotten Arabic Middle Ages; Growing Awareness; Structure Replaces Content; Standardization and Spatialization; Conclusion; 4 Science: Mediterranean Empires and Scientific Unknowns; From Avicenna to the Queries of the Royal Society (1692). |
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Enlightened FalsificationsFrom Natural History to Nation's History; Conclusion: Scientific Unknowns and the Mediterranean; Conclusion; Historicizing Ignorance, Synchronizing Empires; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mediterranean Region -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.
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Mediterranean Region. |
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Commerce. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Mediterranean Region -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Mediterranean Region -- Relations -- Great Britain.
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Relations. |
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Great Britain. |
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Mediterranean Region -- Relations -- France.
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France. |
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Imperialism -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
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Imperialism. |
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International relations. |
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Imperialism -- Foreign relations -- France.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs. |
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Mittelmeerraum. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zwierlein, Cornel. Imperial unknowns. Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2016 9781107166448 (OCoLC)960436164 |
| ISBN |
9781316754306 (electronic book) |
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1316754308 (electronic book) |
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9781316748510 |
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1316748510 |
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9781316711040 |
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1316711048 |
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9781107166448 |
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1107166446 |
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9781316617502 (paperback) |
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1316617505 |
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9781316617502 |
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9781316744659 (e-book) |
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1316744655 |
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