Dew, Nicholas -

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Nicholas
Last Name: 
Dew
Department / Program: 
History
University Affiliation: 
McGill University
Phone: 
514-398-4400
Extension: 
09249
Email Address: 
nicholas.dew@mcgill.ca
Area of Research
Subject: 
Science
Geographical Region: 
France
Time Period: 
17th Century
18th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
History of travel, of Orientalism, of scientific expeditions, French scientific expeditions c. 1660-1760; history of French orientalism in the period 1640-1740
Academics
PHD Program: 
Modern History
PHD University: 
Oxford University
PHD Date: 
2000
Major Publications: 
Nicholas Dew, Orientalism in Louis XIV's France (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew, eds., Science and Empire in the Atlantic World (New York: Routledge, 2008). Dew, Nicholas. "The order of Oriental knowledge: the making of d'Herbelot's Biblioth Dew, Nicholas. 2010. Scientific travel in the Atlantic world: the French expedition to Gorée and the Antilles, 1682-1683. British Journal for the History of Science 43 (1): 1-17.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
HSS
Courses Taught: 
Intro to European History History and Historical Methods Early Modern Western Europe (Honours Seminar): Europe and the Orient from Renaissance to Enlightenment Western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Science and Enlightenment Ancien R