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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Bibliographic Details
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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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Beginnings
  • 1. Prologue: From Local to Global, From Courtesy to Civility
  • 2. The Inception of Global Civility
  • Enlightened Cosmopolitanism and the Practice of Global Civility
  • 3. Global Civility and Shipwreck
  • 4. Global Civility on the Desert Route to India
  • Discursive Changes within Global Civility
  • 5. Two Views of Botany Bay:
  • 6. The Attraction of Repulsion
  • Transitions and Conclusions
  • 7. From Representational Ambivalence to Colonialism
  • 8. Epilogue: From Global Civility to Comparative Imperialisms?
  • Works Cited