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Expertise : practical knowledge and the early modern state
- Title
- Expertise : practical knowledge and the early modern state / edited by Eric H. Ash.
- Publication
- Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, [2010], ©2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | Q1 .O7 2nd ser v.25 | Off-site | |
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- Additional Authors
- Ash, Eric H., 1972-
- Description
- 259 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Osiris, 0369-7827 ; 2nd ser. v. 25
- Uniform Title
- Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser., v. 25.
- Alternative Title
- Practical knowledge and the early modern state
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available online.
- Contents
- Part I. Discerning expertise : (self)-fashioning the early modern expert -- Expertise ex stellis : comets, horoscopes, and politics in Renaissance Hungary / Darin Hayton -- Nestor denied : Francesco Filelfo's advice to princes on the crusade against the Turks / Margaret Meserve -- State building through building for the state : foreign and domestic expertise in Tudor fortification / Steven A. Walton -- Ahmad al-Damanhuri (1689-1778) and the utility of expertise in early modern Ottoman Egypt / Jane H. Murphy -- The Schumacher affair : reconfiguring academic expertise across dynasties in eighteenth-century Russia / Simon Werrett -- Part II. Expertise and the state : experts, political economy, and empire -- Experts, nature, and the making of Atlantic empiricism / Antonio Barrera-Osorio -- Organizing expertise : engineering and public works under Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1662-83 / Michael S. Mahoney -- Leibniz and the wind machines / Andre Wakefield -- Enlightenment science and iconoclasm : the Brazilian naturalist Jose Vieira Couto / Junia Ferreira Furtado -- Political order and the ambivalence of expertise : Count Rumsford and welfare reform in late-eighteenth-century Munich / Anna Maerker -- Quality and the roots of manufacturing "expertise" in eighteenth-century Britain / William J. Ashworth.
- ISBN
- 9780226029399
- 0226029395
- LCCN
- 2012405666
- OCLC
- ocn657325386
- 657325386
- SCSB-5894391
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries