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

by Peter Boomgaard

Book Overview

Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349462519
• ISBN13: 9781349462513
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"