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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Sep 3

The first meeting is this Friday and features mini-presentations on our new Special Issue (hopp.uwpress.org/content/66/2) and meet-and-greets with new collaborators.

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Sep 3

Have an odd pharmacopeia that you’d like to consult on? Could the platform assist you in your studies of related materials? Interested in contributing to the growing dataset?

We meet on the first Friday of the month at 9:30 am NY time via Zoom. Email [email protected] for the link.

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join the Historical Pharmacopeias community for our monthly conversation - “First Friday Pharmacopeias.”

Conducting research on materia medica? Interested in HP (dalme.org/collections/...)?

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · Aug 25

A new week means a brilliant selection of new titles from our distributed presses. First up, "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" from Lever Press's ASIANetwork Books collection.

Find it here: bit.ly/3Vcoc47
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Promotional graphic for "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue". The graphic shows the book's forest green cover on the far left, flanked on the right by a summarising paragraph which says: "A comparative study showing how early modern China and Spain built and balanced their empires through parallel systems of local knowledge, governance, and global exchange."

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 17

The first two chapters - by Maria Portuondo and Joe Dennis - show the making of two different guidelines.

Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 17

We go back in time with @lxslcs.bsky.social's elegant chapter on the precedents for the guidelines, "Imperial Territorial Data before the Age of Print: “Illustrated Guidelines.”

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 17

How did states a world apart develop similar documentary techniques to know the dominions under their control, and how do these techniques help us understand the state in question?

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 17

Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, centrally appointed imperial officials in both China and the Spanish Americas were instructed to gather, compile, and submit information about the locales they administered, following a centrally issued, itemized compilation guideline or questionnaire.

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 17

A mini-intro to the first part of our book, "Knowing an Empire" with @leverpress.bsky.social

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Sources drawn from the originals, and artwork designed by Olivia Buckton and June Lee, mentored by Zoë Sadokierski, University of Technology Sydney School of Design.

Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

"Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" unveils how these two vast empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds in the process of empire-building.

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you to everyone who took part in the conversation at the core of this book.

Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Last but not least, we need global histories that aren't all about loose connections. World history is full of similar inventions to solve similar problems.

Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

As a Europeanist by training, may I also say that we need to take seriously the scale of Chinese history, and what we can learn from scholars who have navigated its incredible documentary troves.

Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

We need more serious conversations about the early modern world that take seriously the deep knowledge of area studies without missing parallels and connections.

Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Barbara E. Mundy, Qun Che, He Bian, Jeremy Mikecz, Mårten Söderblom Saarela, Marcella Hayes, Zhang Xianqing, Stuart M. McManus, Niping Yan, and Dejanirah Couto.

Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Please check out the great chapters by María M. Portuondo, Joseph Dennis, Alexis Lycas, Shih-Pei Chen, Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Diego Jiménez-Badillo, Mariana Favila-Vázquez, Mario Cams, ...

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Over the next few days, I'll be posting about each part of the book: Knowing the State, Structures of Knowing, Knowing Space, Knowing Nature, Knowing People, Connections and Transfers, and Empires of Informal Knowing.

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Through a new methodology of “juxtapositional comparison,” we read the difangzhi 地方志 (local gazetteers) of China and the relaciones geográficas of the Spanish world in parallel.

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, officials in both empires compiled large quantities of structured data on the climate, topography, natural products, languages, religions, and more of their locales, creating a vision of their empires as diverse yet unified.

Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is a book about how two vast empires, separated by thousands of miles, developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds in the process of empire-building.

Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

It has been a delight to work with Huiyi Wu, The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and
@leverpress.bsky.social during the research, writing, and publication of this book.

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

"Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" is now out! It's open-access via Lever Press. Please check it out here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Know...

Knowing an Empire

Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue unveils how these two vast empires, separated by thousands of miles, developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield kno...

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Mackenzie Cooley @mackenziecooley.bsky.social · Aug 14

Such a pleasure to work with Lever on this book!

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · Aug 13

KNOWING AN EMPIRE by @mackenziecooley.bsky.social & Huiyi Wu is now available! This ASIANetwork Books collection reveals the dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology. Start reading: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Know...

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