The Bright Dark Ages: Comparative and Connective Perspectives (Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy) [Hardcover] Bala, Arun and Duara, Prasenjit

Bala, Arun [Editor]; Duara, Prasenjit [Editor];

ISBN 10: 9004264183 / ISBN 13: 9789004264182

Editore: Brill, 2016

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• Titolo: The Bright Dark Ages: Comparative and Connective Perspectives (Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy) [Hardcover] Bala, Arun and Duara, Prasenjit
• Editore: Brill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9004264183
• ISBN 13: 9789004264182
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: As New
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Medieval

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The European 'dark ages' in the millennium 500 to 1500 CE was a bright age of brilliant scientific achievements in China, India and the Middle East. The contributors to this volume address its implications for comparative and connective science studies.

Informazioni sull?autore

Arun Bala (Ph.D. 1983) is a physicist and philosopher of science who has published numerous studies on globalising history and philosophy of The Scientific Revolution. He is author of The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science and edited Asia, Europe and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries.
Prasenjit Duara, Director of Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Emeritus Professor, University of Chicago. Among other books he is author of Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (1988), which won the Fairbank Prize (American Historical Association) and Levenson Prize (Association for Asian Studies, USA).