Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England / Eric H. Ash.
Published / Created:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004.
Physical Description:
viii, 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Contributor biographical information
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/jhu051/2004003188.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references ([217]-248) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : mediators and Elizabethan England -- German miners, English mistrust, and the importance of being "expert" -- Expert mediation and the rebuilding of Dover Harbor -- Early mathematical navigation in England -- Secants and sailors : Elizabethan manuals of navigation -- Truth and utility : Francis Bacon and the expertise of natural philosophy.
Subject Terms:
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1558-1603. | Power (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century. | Knowledge, Sociology of -- History -- 16th century. | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. | Expertise -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.