Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion
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Edited by:
Susanne Friedrich
About this book
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, objects, texts and people travelled around the world on board Dutch ships. The essays in this book explore how these circulations transformed knowledge in Asian and European societies. They concentrate on epistemic consequences in the fields of historiography, geography, natural history, religion and philosophy, as well as in everyday life. Emphasizing transformations, the volume reconstructs small semantic shifts of knowledge and tentative adjustments to new cultural contexts. It unfolds the often conflict-ridden, complex and largely global history of specific pieces of knowledge as well as of generally-shared contemporary understandings regarding what could or could not be considered true. The book contributes to current debates about how to conceptualize the unsettled epistemologies of the early modern world.
Author / Editor information
S. Friedrich und A. Brendecke, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität Munich, Germany; S. Ehrenpreis, Universität Innsbruck, Austria.
Reviews
„[…] however, I am convinced that this book makes an innovative and important contribution to the spatial approach in the history of knowledge."
Karel Davids in: www.sehepunkte.de
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Contents
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Introduction
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Re-Orienting the Transformation of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion: Nagasaki as a Centre of Accumulation and Management
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Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan and Europe: Transformations and Parallel Developments
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Empiricism and Image-Building: The Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge on Dutch Brazil 1636–1750
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Arnoldus Montanus, Dutch Brazil, and the Re-Emergence of Cannibalism
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Knowledge Products and their Transmediations: Dutch Geography and the Transformation of the World
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Transformations and Transformativity of Knowledge: François Le Vaillant’s Travelogues from the Dutch Cape Colony
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Botanical Knowledge in Early Modern Malabar and the Netherlands: A Review of Van Reede’s Hortus Malabaricus
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Under the Spell of Curiositas: Wouter Schouten (1638–1704) as Ethnologist and Natural Scientist
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Before the Bible, beyond the Bible…? VOC Travelogues, World Views and the Paradigms of Christian Europe
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Index
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