Expertise : practical knowledge and the early modern state / edited by Eric H. Ash.

Expertise : practical knowledge and the early modern state / edited by Eric H. Ash.

Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, ©2010.

259 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Osiris, 0369-7827 ; 2nd ser. v. 25

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser. v. 25.

Q124.6 .E97 2010

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