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Berg, Maxine (2013) Useful knowledge, 'industrial enlightenment', and the place of India. Journal of Global History, Volume 8 (Number 1). pp. 117-141. doi:10.1017/S1740022813000077 ISSN 1740-0228.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1740022813000077
Abstract
Research is now turning to the missing place of technology and ‘useful knowledge’ in the debate on the ‘great divergence’ between East and West. Parallel research in the history of science has sought the global dimensions of European knowledge. Joel Mokyr's recent The Enlightened Economy (2009) argued the place of an exceptional ‘industrial enlightenment’ in Europe in explaining industrialization there, but neglected the wide geographic framework of European investigation of the arts and manufactures. This article presents two case studies of European industrial travellers who accessed and described Indian crafts and industries at the time of Britain's industrial revolution and Europe's Enlightenment discourse on crafts and manufactures. The efforts of Anton Hove and Benjamin Heyne to ‘codify’ the ‘tacit’ knowledge of a part of the world distant from Europe were hindered by the English East India Company and the British state. Their accounts, only published much later, provide insight into European perceptions of India's ‘useful knowledge’.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | East India Company, Industrial revolution, Technology -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History 18th century, India -- Civilization. | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Global History | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 1740-0228 | ||||
Official Date: | March 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 8 | ||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 117-141 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S1740022813000077 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 December 2015 | ||||
Funder: | European Research Council (ERC), Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7) | ||||
Grant number: | 249362 (SFP) |
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