Entangled Knowledge Markus

• Other Authors: Hock, Klaus (Editor), Mackenthun, Gesa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Waxmann Verlag 2012
• Series: Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship 4
• Subjects: History; Synchronic Palimpsests; Postcolonial Studies; Discovery of America; American Archaeology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The intimate relationship between global European expansion since the early modern period and the concurrent beginnings of the scientific revolution has long been acknowledged. The contributions in this volume approach the entanglement of science and cultural encounters - many of them in colonial se...