State Building through Building for the State: Foreign and Domestic Expertise in Tudor Fortification

Walton, Steven A.

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“…JahrhundertG rundkenntnisse im Fortifikations-u nd Militärwesen alsw ichtigeE xpertise,d ie nichtz uletzt aufR eiseni n diebetroffenen Länder erworbenwerden konnte. 50 DieKavalierstour erlebteim16. Jahrhunderte inen Prozessd er "Verbürgerlichung",u nd um 1600 traten dieE lemente einer "praxisorientiertenA usbildung" zunehmendinden Vordergrund.…”

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Das ‚politische Volontariat‘ des Arnold Clapmarius. Praktische Erfahrung und der Anschein praktischer Erfahrung als Qualifikation für die politischen Wissenschaften um 1600

Haas

2017

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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Arnold Clapmarius’ ‘Traineeship in politics’. Practical Experience and the Semblance of Practical Experience as a Qualification in the Field of Political Science around the Year 1600. In 1600, Arnold Clapmarius (1574–1604) was appointed the first professor for Public Law and Political Science in the Holy Roman Empire by the University of Altdorf (Nürnberg). He received this professorship though he had not yet published anything because he was a protégé of Landgrave Maurice the Learned of Hesse‐Kassel. Two newly discovered letters which were written by Clapmarius to Maurice show that the young scholar did a traineeship at the Landgrave's court to gather practical experience in politics. This was probably the reason for his appointment in Altdorf. Nevertheless, he hushed up this traineeship because it did not comply to the kind of experience that were expected from a ‘politicus’ at that time, id est military service, educational journeys, foreign languages and regional studies. Thus, this paper fills a gap of Arnold Clapmarius’ biography, and provides a new perspective on the value of practical experience in the field of political science in the Early Modern Period.

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Das ‚politische Volontariat‘ des Arnold Clapmarius. Praktische Erfahrung und der Anschein praktischer Erfahrung als Qualifikation für die politischen Wissenschaften um 1600

Haas

2017

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Managing Expertise: The Problem of Engineers in the English East India Company, 1668–1764

Riding¹

2021

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This article challenges the assumption that the early modern engineer acted as a reliable agent for colonial authorities. Far from acting as trusted mediators between colony and metropole, experts could exacerbate tensions. The English East India Company knew this, and avoided engineers throughout its early history. This article considers the interplay between authorities in London and their subordinates in Bombay. The company's directors saw engineers as untrustworthy agents who increased expenditure and disrupted the company's system of consultative governance. For much of its early modern history, the company's fortifications and built environments relied on a knowledge network of informal expertise. Examining these experts-in-context reveals how expertise was managed and built environments maintained in colonial settings. When the company did turn to experts in the mid-eighteenth century, it struggled to utilise and incorporate them. This demonstrates that in some colonial contexts experts could be profoundly disruptive.

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State Building through Building for the State: Foreign and Domestic Expertise in Tudor Fortification

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Das ‚politische Volontariat‘ des Arnold Clapmarius. Praktische Erfahrung und der Anschein praktischer Erfahrung als Qualifikation für die politischen Wissenschaften um 1600

Das ‚politische Volontariat‘ des Arnold Clapmarius. Praktische Erfahrung und der Anschein praktischer Erfahrung als Qualifikation für die politischen Wissenschaften um 1600

Managing Expertise: The Problem of Engineers in the English East India Company, 1668–1764

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