Zwierlein, Cornel. Imperial unknowns : the French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750

Folger bibliographic ID: 348815
Folger call number: HF3750.7 .Z95 2016
Folger holdings ID: 499508

This book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Conventions; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; History of Empires, History of Ignorance; Actors, Institutions, Places, Period; Terminology and the Questions a History of Ignorance Asks; Disclaimers: The Author's Ignorances; 1 Politics and Economy: Nationalizing Economics; The Constructive Power of Non-Knowledge; Norms as Specifiers of National Non-Knowledge; Baldus versus Grotius: Conceiving the Empires and Their Unknowns; Conclusion: Operative National Non-Knowledge 2 Religion: Empires Ignoring, Learning, Forgetting ReligionsEntangling Powers of Non-Knowledge between West and East (Greek Church, Samaritans, Phoenicians); English Chaplains versus French State Catholicism: Conditions and Functions of Non-Knowledge Communication; Comparison and Conclusion; 3 History: How to Cope with Unconscious Ignorance; The Forgotten Arabic Middle Ages; Growing Awareness; Structure Replaces Content; Standardization and Spatialization; Conclusion; 4 Science: Mediterranean Empires and Scientific Unknowns; From Avicenna to the Queries of the Royal Society (1692) Enlightened FalsificationsFrom Natural History to Nation's History; Conclusion: Scientific Unknowns and the Mediterranean; Conclusion; Historicizing Ignorance, Synchronizing Empires; Bibliography; Index

Extended title: Imperial unknowns : the French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750 / Cornel Zwierlein

Knowledge, Sociology of Mediterranean Region British French Imperialism

author: Zwierlein, Cornel