Empire and Science in the Making: Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830 (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology) - Softcover

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9781349462513: Empire and Science in the Making: Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830 (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Synopsis

Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.

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David Arnold, University of Warwick, UK Raquel Reyes, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Klaas van Berkel, University of Groningen, Netherlands Gerry van Klinken, KITLV, Netherlands Michael Laffan, Princeton University, USA Marieke Bloembergen, KITLV, Netherlands Martijn Eickhoff, NIOD, Netherlands Peter Rietbergen, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands Siegfried Huigen, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Gert Oostindie, KITLV, Netherlands

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