01201nam a2200169Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200200007610000280009624501080012425000140023226000470024630000200029352006700031365000120098365000360099520261019171623.0260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780881353747  223a303.483 SCH  aSchaffer,Simon [editor] 4aThe Brokered Worldb: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820c/ edited by Simon Schaffer et al.  aHardcover  aUSAb: Science History Publicationsc,2009  axxxviii, 560 p.  aOffers detailed consideration of forms of knowledge production and circulation at a key moment in the development of global scientific, commercial and political systems. In particular, it focuses on the roles of intermediaries such as brokers and spies, messengers and translators, missionaries and entrepreneurs, in linking different parts of these ever more densely entangled systems. The period 1770-1820 was decisive for the reformation of imperial projects in the wake of military catastrophe and politico-economic crisis, both in the Atlantic and the Asian/Pacific spheres, economic and political worlds dominated by complex trade systems and violent contest.  aHistory  aHistory of Science, Colonialism