Diarmid A. Finnegan

Spaces of Global Knowledge

Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire

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'Global' knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival research with broader thematic and conceptual reflection, the individual case studies use local specificity to shed light on global structures and processes, revealing the latter to be lived and experienced phenomena rather than abstract historiographical categories.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Wright, Jonathan Jeffrey

ISBN: 978-1-317-05173-2
EAN: 9781317051732
Produktnummer: 20173496
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'833 KB

Über den Autor

Diarmid A. Finnegan, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland and Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, Department of History, Maynooth University, Ireland.