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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101108427324
ISBN-139781108427326
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038569960
Product Key Features
Number of Pages428 Pages
Publication NameGerman Science in the Age of Empire : Enterprise, Opportunity and the Schlagintweit Brothers
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
SubjectHistory, Corporate & Business History
TypeTextbook
AuthorMoritz Von Brescius
Subject AreaScience, Business & Economics
SeriesScience in History Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight30 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2018-049106
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsAdvance praise: 'Moritz von Brescius takes us to the heart of the fraught encounter between nineteenth-century science and power. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, he follows his fascinating protagonists through a world undergoing a process of globalisation that was as much about conflict as it was about connectivity. A brilliant and engagingly written case study of transnational science in the age of empire.' Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal910.9255
Table Of ContentIntroduction: empires of opportunity; 1. Entering the company service: Anglo-German networks and the Schlagintweit mission to Asia; 2. Imperial recruitment and transnational science in India; 3. An ingenious management of patronage communities; 4. Making science in the field: a Eurasian expedition on the move; 5. The inner life of a 'European' expedition: cultural encounters and multiple hierarchies; 6. Contested exploration and the Indian Rebellion: the fateful year 1857; 7. The Schlagintweit collections, India museums, and the tensions of German museology; 8. Asymmetric reputations: memories of exploration and German colonial enterprise; Conclusion.
SynopsisThis seminal study explores the national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a major survey expedition undertaken by the German Schlagintweit brothers, while in the employ of the East India Company, through South and Central Asia in the 1850s. It argues that German scientists, lacking in this period a formal empire of their own, seized the opportunity presented by other imperial systems to observe, record, collect and loot manuscripts, maps, and museological artefacts that shaped European understandings of the East. Drawing on archival research in three continents, von Brescius vividly explores the dynamics and conflicts of transcultural exploration beyond colonial frontiers in Asia. Analysing the contested careers of these imperial outsiders, he reveals significant changes in the culture of gentlemanly science, the violent negotiation of scientific authority in a transnational arena, and the transition from Humboldtian enquiry to a new disciplinary order. This book offers a new understanding of German science and its role in shaping foreign empires, and provides a revisionist account of the questions of authority and of authenticity in reportage from distant sites., A study of German scientists who travelled to other nations' empires to observe, record, and collect rich materials that shaped European views of the East. This lavishly illustrated book provides a gripping account of trans-cultural overseas exploration, colonial science, and Anglo-German cooperation and conflicts in the nineteenth century.
LC Classification NumberQ115.B835 2019
