Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires: A Decentered View

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Was Astronomy the Science of Empires? An Eighteenth-Century Debate in View of the Cases of Tycho and Galileo....Pages 25-51
The Jesuits’ Negotiation of Science between France and China (1685–1722): Knowledge and Modes of Imperial Expansion....Pages 53-77
The Uses of Knowledge and the Symbolic Map of the Enlightened Monarchy of the Habsburgs: Maximilian Hell as Imperial and Royal Astronomer (1755–1792)....Pages 79-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Capitalizing Manuscripts, Confronting Empires: Anquetil-Duperron and the Economy of Oriental Knowledge in the Context of the Seven Years’ War....Pages 109-128
Contested Locations of Knowledge: The Malaspina Expedition along the Eastern Coast of Patagonia (1789)....Pages 129-151
“To Round Out this Immense Country”: The Circulation of Cartographic and Historiographical Knowledge between Brazil and Angola in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 153-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Mexico, an American Hub in the Making of European China in the Seventeenth Century....Pages 181-206
Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World....Pages 207-233
Measuring the Strength of a State: Staatenkunde in Hungary around 1800....Pages 235-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-273