Empire and Science in the Making: Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760–1830

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-37
Science and the Colonial War-State: British India, 1790–1820....Pages 39-62
Collecting and the Pursuit of Scientific Accuracy: The Malaspina Expedition in the Philippines, 1792....Pages 63-88
Empire without Science? The Dutch Scholarly World and Colonial Science around 1800....Pages 89-108
Why Was There No Javanese Galileo?....Pages 109-134
For the Common Good: Dutch Institutions and Western Scholarship on Indonesia around 1800....Pages 135-164
“A Religion That Is Extremely Easy and Unusually Light to Take On”: Dutch and English Knowledge of Islam in Southeast Asia, ca. 1595–1811....Pages 165-184
A Moral Obligation of the Nation-State: Archaeology and Regime Change in Java and the Netherlands in the Early Nineteenth Century....Pages 185-205
Meeting Point Deshima: Scholarly Communication between Japan and Europe up till around 1800....Pages 207-230
Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Dutch Cape Colony at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Ludwig Alberti....Pages 231-251
Intellectual Wastelands? Scholarship in and for the Dutch West Indies up to ca. 1800....Pages 253-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-302