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ISBN
9781851968893
Publisert
2008-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Vekt
430 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
208
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'draws in a number of intriguing and traditionally overlooked colonial aspects of the careers of eminent philosophers' British Journal for the History of Science 'provides an excellent foundation for identifying the ways in which the English virtuosi linked the North American ventures to ideas about the understanding and improvement of nature.' Church History 'The value of this book lies in its close, sophisticated reading and analysis of primary sources.' Itinerario
Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.
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Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.
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Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘In a Pure Soil’: Francis Bacon’s Empire of Knowledge; Chapter 2 Restoring Eden in America: The Hartlib Circle’s Pansophical Empire; Chapter 3 Robert Boyle’s Protestant Colonial Project; Chapter 4 The Royal Society and the Atlantic World; Chapter 5 John Locke’s Language of Empire; Chapter 6 Conclusion;
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781851968893
Publisert
2008-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Vekt
430 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
208
Forfatter