Screen LibraryTransformations of knowledge in dutch expansion /
In the 17th and 18th centuries, people, objects, and texts travelled around the world aboard Dutch ships. This book explores how these circulations transformed the knowledge in Asian and European societies. It focuses on epistemic changes in historiography, geography, religion, philosophy as well as...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pluralisierung & autorit t;
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
In the 17th and 18th centuries, people, objects, and texts travelled around the world aboard Dutch ships. This book explores how these circulations transformed the knowledge in Asian and European societies. It focuses on epistemic changes in historiography, geography, religion, philosophy as well as in everyday life. Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs semantic shifts of knowledge as well as adjustments to new cultural contexts. |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource (v, 257 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110366174 |
| Index Number: | D250 |
| CLC: | D095.653 |
| 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: Fran ois 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. |