Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

Curious Encounters Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

"With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Craciun, Adriana (Editor), Craciun, Adriana , editor (editor), Terrall, Mary, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press 2019
[2019]
Colección:UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
Materias:
Civilization, Modern > 18th century.
Civilization, Western > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009437912906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall
  • The British way of tea : tea as an object of knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730 / Markman Ellis
  • Evliya Çelebi, explorer on horseback : knowledge gathering by a seventeenth-century Ottoman / Donna Landry
  • Indigenous voyaging, authorship, and discovery / Michael Bravo
  • The world in a nicknackatory : encounters and exchanges in Hans Sloane's collection / Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering
  • A slaving surgeon's collection : the pursuit of natural history through the British slave trade to Spanish America / Kathleen S. Murphy
  • From the monumental to the minutiae : serializing Polynesian barkcloths in eighteenth-century Britain / Billie Lythberg
  • Formal encounters : education, evangelization, and the reproduction of custom in seventeenth-century Peru / Matthew Goldmark
  • Stadial environmental history in the voyage narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster / Noah Heringman.

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