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Ash, Eric H., 1972-

Title Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England / Eric H. Ash.

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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	303.4830942 As31p 2004	---	Available

Description	viii, 265 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : Expert 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, sailors, and Elizabethan manuals of navigation -- Francis Bacon and the expertise of natural philosophy -- Conclusion: Power, authority, and the expert mediator.
Subject	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.
ISBN	0801879922 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780801879920 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No.	NLGGC 261712225