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Comparisons affect various ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, characterized by distinct legitimization strategies and knowledge application routines by different actors. The contributors to this volume explore the link between change and practices of comparing, focusing on order, representation, and models. They delve into how comparing influences knowledge production, but also focus on persisting orders of knowledge. This collection centers on the role of models and modeling in relation to practices of comparing, thus highlighting the representational and operational force of comparing as a way to form and organize reality.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: On 'Doing Comparison' - Practices of Comparing -- Part I Women, Marriage Practices, and Morals -- 1 Bridging the Gap: Jesuit Missionaries' Perspectives on Marriage in the Philippines in the Period of Contact -- 2 Constructing the Literati: The Jesuits' Attempt to Understand China's Confucian Elite by Dint of Comparison -- 3 'Our' Women, 'Their' Women: Domestic Space and the Question of Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India -- Part II Politics, Polemics, and Propaganda -- 4 Entre Nos: Comparison and Authority in the Epistolary of Antonio Valeriano -- 5 Global Benchmarks of Princely Rule in the Early Eighteenth Century? Transcultural Comparison in the Political Series of the German Publisher Renger (1704-1718) -- 6 Spain and Its North-African 'Other': Ambivalent Practices of Comparing in the Context of Modern Spanish Colonialism Around 1860 -- 7 Propaganda, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Politics of Comparison in the Early Cold War, 1945 to the 1960s -- Part III Literature, Science, and Literary Discourse -- 8 Same Sky, Different Soil: Geographical Difference in Eighteenth-Century Astronomy and Its Impact on Literature -- 9 Between Nature and Culture: Comparing, Natural History, and Anthropology in Modern French Travel Narratives Around 1800 (François-René de Chateaubriand) -- 10 Comparison as Context in Sir William Jones's Translations of Eastern Literature -- Part IV Race, Civilization, and Religion -- 11 Colonizing Complexions: How Laws of Bondage Shaped Race in America's Colonial Borderlands -- 12 Tocqueville's Compass: On History, Race, and Comparison in A Fortnight in the Wilds.