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German science in the age of empire : enterprise, opportunity, and the Schlagintweit brothers / Moritz von Brescius, University of Konstanz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Science in historyPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781108631167
  • 1108631169
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 910.92/55 23
LOC classification:
  • Q115 .B835 2019eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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