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Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the history of science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.
Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the history of science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.
Über den Autor
KAPIL RAJ teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and is a member of the Centre Alexandre Koyré for the History of Science. He has published extensively on knowledge construction through processes of intercultural encounter and is currently working on a book on the urban and intellectual dynamics of Calcutta in the 18th century.
Zusammenfassung
A case-study based challenge to Eurocentric and diffusionist approaches in the history of science
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants and Craftsmen: Making L'Empereur's Jardin in Early Modern South Asia Circulation and the Emergence of Modern Mapping: Great Britain and Early Colonial India, 1764-1820 Refashioning Civilities, Engineering Trust: William Jones, Indian Intermediaries, and the Production of Reliable Legal Knowledge in Late Eighteenth-Century Bengal British Orientalism in the Early Nineteenth Century, or Globalism versus Universalism Defusing Diffusionism: the Institutionalization of Modern Science Education in Early Nineteeth-Century Bengal When Human Travellers become Instruments: the Indo-British Exploration of Central Asia in the Nineteenth Century Conclusion Bibliography Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2007 |
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Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: |
xiii
285 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780230238503 |
ISBN-10: | 0230238505 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Raj, K. |
Auflage: | 2007 edition |
Hersteller: |
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave MacMillan UK |
Maße: | 220 x 144 x 19 mm |
Von/Mit: | K. Raj |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.01.2007 |
Gewicht: | 0,372 kg |
Über den Autor
KAPIL RAJ teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and is a member of the Centre Alexandre Koyré for the History of Science. He has published extensively on knowledge construction through processes of intercultural encounter and is currently working on a book on the urban and intellectual dynamics of Calcutta in the 18th century.
Zusammenfassung
A case-study based challenge to Eurocentric and diffusionist approaches in the history of science
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants and Craftsmen: Making L'Empereur's Jardin in Early Modern South Asia Circulation and the Emergence of Modern Mapping: Great Britain and Early Colonial India, 1764-1820 Refashioning Civilities, Engineering Trust: William Jones, Indian Intermediaries, and the Production of Reliable Legal Knowledge in Late Eighteenth-Century Bengal British Orientalism in the Early Nineteenth Century, or Globalism versus Universalism Defusing Diffusionism: the Institutionalization of Modern Science Education in Early Nineteeth-Century Bengal When Human Travellers become Instruments: the Indo-British Exploration of Central Asia in the Nineteenth Century Conclusion Bibliography Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2007 |
---|---|
Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: |
xiii
285 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780230238503 |
ISBN-10: | 0230238505 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Raj, K. |
Auflage: | 2007 edition |
Hersteller: |
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave MacMillan UK |
Maße: | 220 x 144 x 19 mm |
Von/Mit: | K. Raj |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.01.2007 |
Gewicht: | 0,372 kg |
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