Hinweis Internationale Hölderlin Bibliographie: S. 172-179: Die Entwicklung der deutschen Kolonie in Bordeaux (1660-1830); S. 179-224: Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen : Deutsche Handelshäuser in Bordeaux [Vgl. Personenreg.]. - S. 370-381: Deutsche Kaufleute in Bordeaux, 1650 bis 1830, mit Angaben des frühest bekannten Aufenthaltes in der Stadt [Tabelle]
Reich bebilderter, gut lesbarer Überblick über die Geschichte deutscher Einwanderer und deren massgeblichen Beitrag zur Entwicklung der amerikanischen Nation von 1680 bis zur Gegenwart
With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer. From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met the need for the dissemination of information in a more flexible format, one that eschewed the limits of previous centuries of erudition. The rise of vernacular languages dovetailed with the demand for information in every sector, sparking competition among nations to establish the encyclopedic "paper empires" that became symbols of power and potential. In this edited collection, Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink evaluate the long-overlooked phenomenon of knowledge creation and transfer that occurred in hundreds of translated encyclopedic compilations over the long eighteenth century. Analysing multiple instances of translated compilations, Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 expands into the vast realm of the multilingual, encyclopedic compilation, the most tangible proof of the global enlightenment. Through the presentation of an extensive corpus of translated compilations, it argues that the true site of knowledge transfer resided in the transnational movement of ideas exemplified by these compendia. The encyclopedia came to represent the aspiring nation as a viable economic and political player on the world stage; the capability to tell knowledge through culture became the hallmark of a nation's cultural capital, symbolic of its might and mapping the how, why, and where of the global eighteenth century.
