01250nam a2200193Ia 4500 20261019171623.0 260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 9780881353747 23 303.483 SCH Schaffer,Simon [editor] The Brokered World : Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820 / edited by Simon Schaffer et al. Hardcover USA : Science History Publications ,2009 xxxviii, 560 p. Offers 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. History History of Science, Colonialism RBK 69162 69162 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-08 0 303.483 SCH G8039 2026-06-08 15:45:18 2026-06-08 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection