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Cornel Zwierlein : Imperial Unknowns: The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016

ISBN 1107166446

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. P5 - A first edition (First published 2016 stated) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has less than an inch tear on the front top left, some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, scatttered rubbing, light scratches and scuffing, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x6.25", 400 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In this major study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication - as a fundamental trigger that sets knowledge in motion? Zwierlein explores whether the Scientific Revolution between 1650 and 1750 can be understood as just one of what were in fact many simultaneous epistemic movements and considers the role of the European empires in this phenomenon. Deconstructing central categories like the mercantilist 'national', the exchange of 'confessions' between Western and Eastern Christians and the bridging of cultural gaps between European and Ottoman subjects, Zwierlein argues that understanding what was not known by historical agents can be just as important as the history of knowledge itself.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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