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Auteur(s) : Brescius, Moritz von. Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : German science in the age of empire [Texte imprimé] : enterprise, opportunity, and the Schlagintweit brothers / Moritz von Brescius,...
Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge university press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-414 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Science in history
Lien à la collection : Science in history
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 367-400
This seminal study explores the national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake
in a major survey expedition undertaken by the German Schlagintweit brothers, while
in the employ of the East India Company, through South and Central Asia in the 1850s.
It argues that German scientists, lacking in this period a formal empire of their
own, seized the opportunity presented by other imperial systems to observe, record,
collect and loot manuscripts, maps, and museological artefacts that shaped European
understandings of the East. Drawing on archival research in three continents, von
Brescius vividly explores the dynamics and conflicts of transcultural exploration
beyond colonial frontiers in Asia. Analysing the contested careers of these imperial
outsiders, he reveals significant changes in the culture of gentlemanly science, the
violent negotiation of scientific authority in a transnational arena, and the transition
from Humboldtian enquiry to a new disciplinary order. This book offers a new understanding
of German science and its role in shaping foreign empires, and provides a revisionist
account of the questions of authority and of authenticity in reportage from distant
sites
Sujet(s) : Schlagintweit, Adolf von (1829-1857)
Schlagintweit, Hermann von (1826-1882)
Schlagintweit, Robert von (1833-1885)
Expéditions scientifiques -- Asie -- XIXe siècle
Explorateurs allemands -- Asie -- XIXe siècle
Indice(s) Dewey : 910.922 (23e éd.) = Géographes, voyageurs, explorateurs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108427326. - ISBN 1108427324 (rel.). - ISBN 9781108446068. - ISBN 110844606X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45709601j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45709601
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Table des matières : Empires of opportunity ; Entering the company service: Anglo-German networks and the Schlagintweit mission to Asia ; Imperial recruitment and transnational science in India ; An ingenious management of patronage communities ; Making science in the field: a Eurasian expedition on the move ; The inner life of a European expedition: cultural encounters and multiple hierarchies ; Contested exploration and the Indian rebellion: the fateful year 1857 ; The Schlagintweit collections, India museums, and the tensions of German museology ; Asymmetric reputations: memories of exploration and German colonial enterprise.