LEADER 04179nam 22005772 450 001 9910136606103321 005 20161031135437.0 010 $a1-316-73307-6 010 $a1-316-73114-6 010 $a1-316-74465-5 010 $a1-316-61750-5 010 $a1-316-71104-8 010 $a1-316-74658-5 010 $a1-316-75430-8 010 $a1-316-74851-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000894290 035 $a(EBL)4659221 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781316711040 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4659221 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000894290 100 $a20160129d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImperial unknowns $ethe French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750 /$fCornel Zwierlein$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 416 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2016). 311 $a1-107-16644-6 311 $a1-316-75237-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover ; 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 327 $a2 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) 327 $aEnlightened FalsificationsFrom Natural History to Nation's History; Conclusion: Scientific Unknowns and the Mediterranean; Conclusion; Historicizing Ignorance, Synchronizing Empires; Bibliography; Index 330 $aIn this major new study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication - as a fundamental trigger that sets knowledge in motion? Zwierlein explores whether the Scientific Revolution between 1650 and 1750 can be understood as just one of what were in fact many simultaneous epistemic movements and considers the role of the European empires in this phenomenon. Deconstructing central categories like the mercantilist 'national', the exchange of 'confessions' between Western and Eastern Christians and the bridging of cultural gaps between European and Ottoman subjects, Zwierlein argues that understanding what was not known by historical agents can be just as important as the history of knowledge itself. 607 $aMediterranean Region$xCommerce$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aMediterranean Region$xCommerce$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aMediterranean Region$xRelations$zGreat Britain 607 $aMediterranean Region$xRelations$zFrance 607 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zMediterranean Region 607 $aFrance$xRelations$zMediterranean Region 676 $a382.091822 700 $aZwierlein$b Cornel$01047040 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136606103321 996 $aImperial unknowns$92583525 997 $aUNINA