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Empire and Science in the Making

Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830

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Editors:
  1. Peter Boomgaard

    1. KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands
      University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
      Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Boomgaard
    Pages 1-37

  3. Science and the Colonial War-State: British India, 1790–1820

    • David Arnold
    Pages 39-62

  4. Collecting and the Pursuit of Scientific Accuracy: The Malaspina Expedition in the Philippines, 1792

    • Raquel A. G. Reyes
    Pages 63-88

  5. Empire without Science? The Dutch Scholarly World and Colonial Science around 1800

    • Klaas van Berkel
    Pages 89-108

  6. Why Was There No Javanese Galileo?

    • Gerry van Klinken
    Pages 109-134

  7. For the Common Good: Dutch Institutions and Western Scholarship on Indonesia around 1800

    • Peter Boomgaard
    Pages 135-164

  8. “A Religion That Is Extremely Easy and Unusually Light to Take On”: Dutch and English Knowledge of Islam in Southeast Asia, ca. 1595–1811

    • Michael Laffan
    Pages 165-184

  9. A Moral Obligation of the Nation-State: Archaeology and Regime Change in Java and the Netherlands in the Early Nineteenth Century

    • Marieke Bloembergen, Martijn Eickhoff
    Pages 185-205

  10. Meeting Point Deshima: Scholarly Communication between Japan and Europe up till around 1800

    • Peter Rietbergen
    Pages 207-230

  11. Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Dutch Cape Colony at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Ludwig Alberti

    • Siegfried Huigen
    Pages 231-251

  12. Intellectual Wastelands? Scholarship in and for the Dutch West Indies up to ca. 1800

    • Gert Oostindie
    Pages 253-280

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 281-302
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Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.

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"Empire and Science in the Making is a complete, nuanced, and honest assessment of the Dutch colonial science in early 19th century" - Lien Socio

Editors and Affiliations

  • KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Peter Boomgaard

  • University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter Boomgaard

  • Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany

    Peter Boomgaard

About the editor

David Arnold, University of Warwick, UK Raquel Reyes, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Klaas van Berkel, University of Groningen, Netherlands Gerry van Klinken, KITLV, Netherlands Michael Laffan, Princeton University, USA Marieke Bloembergen, KITLV, Netherlands Martijn Eickhoff, NIOD, Netherlands Peter Rietbergen, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands Siegfried Huigen, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Gert Oostindie, KITLV, Netherlands

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