Representations of Global Civility English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863

Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific, Sascha Klement adopts a uniquely global perspective and demo...

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Main Author: Klement, Sascha R. (Author)
Format: Thesis
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
Bielefeld : [2021]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Global- und Kolonialgeschichte
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Summary:Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific, Sascha Klement adopts a uniquely global perspective and demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconnections, and even-handed exchanges across cultural divides. In so doing, this book shows that both travel and travel-writing from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries were much more complex and multi-layered than reductive Eurocentric histories often suggest.
Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
ISBN:9783839455838