Empire and Science in the Making

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Peter Boomgaard

   Pages 1-37

3. Science and the Colonial War-State: British India, 1790–1820

   • David Arnold

   Pages 39-62

4. Collecting and the Pursuit of Scientific Accuracy: The Malaspina Expedition in the Philippines, 1792

   • Raquel A. G. Reyes

   Pages 63-88

5. Empire without Science? The Dutch Scholarly World and Colonial Science around 1800

   • Klaas van Berkel

   Pages 89-108

6. Why Was There No Javanese Galileo?

   • Gerry van Klinken

   Pages 109-134

7. For the Common Good: Dutch Institutions and Western Scholarship on Indonesia around 1800

   • Peter Boomgaard

   Pages 135-164

8. “A Religion That Is Extremely Easy and Unusually Light to Take On”: Dutch and English Knowledge of Islam in Southeast Asia, ca. 1595–1811

   • Michael Laffan

   Pages 165-184

9. A Moral Obligation of the Nation-State: Archaeology and Regime Change in Java and the Netherlands in the Early Nineteenth Century

   • Marieke Bloembergen, Martijn Eickhoff

   Pages 185-205

10. Meeting Point Deshima: Scholarly Communication between Japan and Europe up till around 1800

    • Peter Rietbergen

    Pages 207-230

11. Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Dutch Cape Colony at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Ludwig Alberti

    • Siegfried Huigen

    Pages 231-251

12. Intellectual Wastelands? Scholarship in and for the Dutch West Indies up to ca. 1800

    • Gert Oostindie

    Pages 253-280

13. Back Matter

    Pages 281-302

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Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.

• Britain
• British India
• empire
• enlightenment
• Europe
• Russia
• Spain

"Empire and Science in the Making is a complete, nuanced, and honest assessment of the Dutch colonial science in early 19th century" - Lien Socio

• KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands

  Peter Boomgaard

• University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Peter Boomgaard

• Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany

  Peter Boomgaard

David Arnold, University of Warwick, UK Raquel Reyes, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Klaas van Berkel, University of Groningen, Netherlands Gerry van Klinken, KITLV, Netherlands Michael Laffan, Princeton University, USA Marieke Bloembergen, KITLV, Netherlands Martijn Eickhoff, NIOD, Netherlands Peter Rietbergen, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands Siegfried Huigen, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Gert Oostindie, KITLV, Netherlands

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