Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770–1820
Simon Schaffer
Lissa Roberts
Kapil Raj
James Delbourgo
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1
Frontier Tales: Tokugawa Japan in Translation
Robert Liss
Chapter 2
The Asiatic Enlightenments of British Astronomy
Simon Schaffer
Chapter 3
Mapping Knowledge Go-betweens in Calcutta, 1770–1820 105
Kapil Raj
Chapter 4
Friendship and Knowledge: Correspondence and Communication in Northern Trans-Atlantic Natural History, 1780–1815 151
Margaret Meredith
Chapter 5
Full Steam Ahead: Entrepreneurial Engineers as Go-betweens During the Late Eighteenth Century
Lissa Roberts
Chapter 6
Spies, Dyes and Leaves: Agro-intermediaries, Luso-Brazilian Couriers, and the Worlds They Sowed
Neil Safier
Chapter 7
Fugitive Colours: Shamans’ Knowledge, Chemical Empire and Atlantic Revolutions
James Delbourgo
Chapter 8
Across Nations and Ages: The Creole Collector and the Many Lives of the Megatherium
Juan Pimentel
Chapter 9
Self Preservation: French Travels between Cuisine and Industrie
Emma Spary
Chapter 10
Boundary-crossings, Cultural Encounters and Knowledge Spaces in Early Australia
David Turnbull
Chapter 11
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Some Afterthoughts
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Contributors
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Index
Uppsala Studies in History of Science 35
November, 560 pp., black and white illustrations, ISBN 978-0-88135-374-7, $69.96
