Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009305328 ISBN 13: 9781009305327

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Offers a timely intervention into the debate about the Enlightenment and its legacy, highlighting both its plurality and continuing relevance.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Joan-Pau Rubiés is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and was previously Reader at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He directs a research project on the history of Ethnographies, Cultural Encounters and Religious Missions in the Early Modern world and has published extensively on these topics. He is currently writing a monograph on travel writing and the origins of the Enlightenment, and a book on missionary ethnographies in the early modern world.

Neil Safier is Associate Professor of History at Brown University, where he served from 2013-21 as Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (2008) and a range of articles on the history of natural history, environmental studies, and the trans-imperial history of the tropical world, especially South America. He is currently working on a book that connects Brazilian natural history with the plantation cultures of the eighteenth-century Caribbean, including sugar, indigo, coffee, and cotton.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1009305328
• ISBN 13: 9781009305327
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
• Herausgeber: Rubiés
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italien