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Imperial Unknowns
Cornel Zwierlein
Author : Cornel Zwierlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1316738868
In this major study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication - as a fundamental trigger that sets knowledge in motion? Zwierlein explores whether the Scientific Revolution between 1650 and 1750 can be understood as just one of what were in fact many simultaneous epistemic movements and considers the role of the European empires in this phenomenon. Deconstructing central categories like the mercantilist 'national', the exchange of 'confessions' between Western and Eastern Christians and the bridging of cultural gaps between European and Ottoman subjects, Zwierlein argues that understanding what was not known by historical agents can be just as important as the history of knowledge itself.
The Power of the Dispersed
Cornel Zwierlein
Author : Cornel Zwierlein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9004140727
The present case studies on early modern travelers, dispersed often by unintended consequences of war, curiosity, economic or political reasons in the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, ask for what ́power(s) ́ and agency they still had, perhaps counterintuitively, abroad.
Prometheus Tamed
Cornel Zwierlein
Author : Cornel Zwierlein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9004431225
Large city fires were a huge threat in premodern Central European every-day life; only quite late, institutional forms of fire insurances emerged as a post-disaster instrument of damage recovery. During the nineteenth century, insurance agencies spread through the World forming a plurality of modernities, safe or unsafe.
The Dark Side of Knowledge
Cornel Zwierlein
Author : Cornel Zwierlein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004325182
How can one study the absence of knowledge, the voids, the conscious and unconscious unknowns through history? Investigations into late medieval and early modern practices of measuring, of risk calculation, of ignorance within financial administrations, of conceiving the docta ignorantia as well as the silence of the illiterate are combined with contributions regarding knowledge gaps within identification procedures and political decision-making, with the emergence of consciously delimited blanks on geographical maps, with ignorance as a factor embedded in iconographic programs, in translation processes and the semantic potentials of reading. Based on thorough archival analysis, these selected contributions from conferences at Harvard and Paris are tightly framed by new theoretical elaborations that have implications beyond these cases and epochal focus. Contributors: Giovanni Ceccarelli, Taylor Cowdery, Lucile Haguet, John T. Hamilton, Lucian Hölscher, Moritz Isenmann, Adam J. Kosto, Marie-Laure Legay, Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, Fabrice Micallef, William T. O ́Reilly, Eleonora Rohland, Mathias Schmoeckel, Daniel L. Smail, Govind P. Sreenivasan, and Cornel Zwierlein.
Out of Italy
Fernand Braudel
Author : Fernand Braudel
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1609455355
From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650. In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political dominance is utterly astonishing and unique in world history. Viewing the Italy?the many Italies?of that time through the lens of today allows us to gather a fragmented, multi-faceted, and seemingly contradictory history into a single unifying narrative that speaks to our current reality as much as it does to a specific historical period. This is what the acclaimed French historian, Fernand Braudel, achieves here. He brings to life the two extraordinary centuries that span the Renaissance, Mannerism, and the Baroque and analyzes the complex interaction between art, science, politics, and commerce during Italy’s extraordinary cultural flowering.
The Business of News
Heiko Droste
Author : Heiko Droste
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004440119
The exchange of news belongs to the fabric of functional elites and affects institutionalisation processes in seventeenth century. The news market was part of the elite’s social economy. Investment in news resulted in participation and privilege.
War and Peace
Valentina Vadi
Author : Valentina Vadi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004426035
This treatise investigates the emergence of the early modern law of nations, focusing on Alberico Gentili’s contribution to the same. A religious refugee and Regius Professor at the University of Oxford, Alberico Gentili (1552–1608) lived in difficult times of religious wars and political persecution. He discussed issues that were topical in his lifetime and remain so today, including the clash of civilizations, the conduct of war, and the maintenance of peace. His idealism and political pragmatism constitute the principal reasons for the continued interest in his work. Gentili’s work is important for historical record, but also for better analysing and critically assessing the origins of international law and its current developments, as well as for elaborating its future trajectories.
Gateways to the Book
Gitta Bertram
Author : Gitta Bertram
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004464522
An investigation of the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published between 1500 and 1800.
The Republican Alternative
André Holenstein
Author : André Holenstein
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9089640053
The Republican Alternative seeks to move beyond the mere notion of scholarly inquiry into the republic—the subject of recent rediscovery by political historians interested in Europe’s intellectual heritage—by investigating the practical similarities and differences between two early modern republics, as well as their self-images and interactions during the turbulent seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the world’s most economically successful societies, Switzerland and the Netherlands laid much of the foundation for their prosperity during the early modern period discussed here. This volume attempts to clarify the special character of these two countries as they developed, including issues of religious plurality, the republican form of government, and an increasingly commercially-driven agrarian society.