Title: Expertise : practical knowledge and the early modern state /
Authors: Ash, Eric H., 1972-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Science History; Expertise History.; Knowledge, Sociology of History.; Knowledge, Theory of History
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.