Expertise
Subtitle: practical knowledge and the early modern state
By: edited by Eric H. Ash
Series: Osiris -- 2nd ser. v. 25; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) -- 2nd ser. v. 25.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780226029399
Subjects: Wissenssoziologie; Sociology of Knowledge; Expertise; Theory of Knowledge; Science; Political aspects; History
Other titles: Practical knowledge and the early modern state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: Discerning expertise : (self)-fashioning the early modern expert --; title: Expertise ex stellis : comets, horoscopes, and politics in Renaissance Hungary  -- Darin Hayton; title: Nestor denied : Francesco Filelfo's advice to princes on the crusade against the Turks  -- Margaret Meserve; title: State building through building for the state : foreign and domestic expertise in Tudor fortification  -- Steven A. Walton; title: Ahmad al-Damanhuri (1689-1778) and the utility of expertise in early modern Ottoman Egypt  -- Jane H. Murphy; title: The Schumacher affair : reconfiguring academic expertise across dynasties in eighteenth-century Russia  -- Simon Werrett -- Part II.; title: Expertise and the state : experts, political economy, and empire --; title: Experts, nature, and the making of Atlantic empiricism  -- Antonio Barrera-Osorio; title: Organizing expertise : engineering and public works under Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1662-83  -- Michael S. Mahoney; title: Leibniz and the wind machines  -- Andre Wakefield; title: Enlightenment science and iconoclasm : the Brazilian naturalist Jose Vieira Couto  -- Junia Ferreira Furtado; title: Political order and the ambivalence of expertise : Count Rumsford and welfare reform in late-eighteenth-century Munich  -- Anna Maerker; title: Quality and the roots of manufacturing "expertise" in eighteenth-century Britain -- William J. Ashworth.