Imperial Unknowns The French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650–1750

Imperial Unknowns\n\nThe French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650\u20131750\n\nThis book offers a new approach to understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.\n\nCornel Zwierlein (Author)\n\n9781107166448, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 19 October 2016\n\n412 pages\n23.5 x 16 x 2.4 cm, 0.79 kg\n\n'This study demonstrates in an impressive way and with a stupendous [or amazing] erudition [or scholarship] that the question for forms of ignorance and how men and women of the past were coping with the borders of their knowledge can lead to new research questions.' Mark H\u00E4berlein, translated from Zeitschrift f\u00FCr Historische Forschung\n\nIn this major study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economi]