The Brokered World
Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770–1820
Simon Schaffer, Lissa Roberts,
Kapil Raj, James Delbourgo, editors
“This collection considers forms of knowledge production and circulation during the half century between 1770 and 1820, a key period in the development of global scientific, commercial, and political systems. In particular, it focuses on the roles played by intermediaries—brokers and spies, messengers and translators, missionaries and entrepreneurs—in linking different parts of these ever more densely entangled systems…”—Research Book News, February 2010
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
Other books in the Uppsala Series
Beretta, Marco, and Alessandro Tosi, editors
Linnaeus in Italy: The Spread of a Revolution in Science
Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Volume 34
2007, 0-88135-393-0
xxiii + 340 pp., $60.00
Beretta, Marco, editor
From Private to Public: Natural Collections and Museums
Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Volume 32
September 2005, 0-88135-360-4
272pp., $39.95
Beretta, Marco,
Imaging a Career in Science
The Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Volume 29
Bologna Studies in Scientific Heritage, Volume 1
2001, ISBN 0-88135-294-2, $29.95
Beretta, M. & Frängsmyr,T. Ed.,
Sidereus Nuncius & Stella Polaris
The Scientific Relations Between Italy and Sweden in Early Modern History
Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Volume 24
1997, ISBN 0-88135-188-1, $39.95
Crawford,E,
Arrhenius
From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect
Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Volume 23
1996, ISBN 0-88135-166-0, $49.95
Eriksson, Gunnar,
The Atlantic Vision
Olaus Rudbeck and Baroque Science
Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Volume 19
1994, ISBN 0-88135-158-X, $27.95
Frängsmyr, Tore,
Linnaeus
The Man and His Work
Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Volume 18
1994, ISBN 0-88135-154-7, $14.95
Lindqvist, Svante,
Center on the Periphery
Historical Aspects of 20th-Century Swedish Physics
Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Volume 17
1993, ISBN 0-88135-157-1, $49.95
Beretta, Marco,
The Enlightenment of Matter
The Definition of Chemistry from Agricola to Lavoisier
Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Volume 15
1993, ISBN 0-88135-152-0, $49.95
Lindqvist, Svante,
Technology on Trial
The Introduction of Steam Power Technology into Sweden, 1715-1736
Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Volume 1
1984, ISBN 0-88135-716-4, $54
© 2010 Watson Publishing International LLC