The Jesuit Contribution to the Geographical Knowledge of India in the Eighteenth Century
While the mapping activities of French Jesuits in China and New France have been extensively studied, those in India have received less attention. While benefiting from the French crown's interest in using the Jesuits as a tool for empire, they did not help develop an overarching imperial struc...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-84 |
RelBib Classification: | AF Geography of religion KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBM Asia KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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Jean-Baptiste d'Anville
B Jesuit Cartography B Académie des Sciences B Étienne Souciet B Claude-Stanislas Boudier B India B Gaston-Laurent Cœurdoux B Guillaume Delisle B Claude Moriset B Pondicherry B France B Jean-Venant Bouchet B Louis-Noël de Bourzes |
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