Curious Encounters
Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
Published on 17. January 2019
256 pages
978-1-4875-1848-6 (ISBN)
Description
Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends.
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Language
English
Place of publication
ON
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
15 s/w Abbildungen
15 b&w illustrations
File size
2,06 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-1848-6 (9781487518486)
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Adriana Craciun | Mary Terrall
Curious Encounters
Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
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02/2019
University of Toronto Press
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CraciunAdriana:
Adriana Craciun is the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities at Boston University.
TerrallMary:
Mary Terrall is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Adriana Craciun is the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities at Boston University.
TerrallMary:
Mary Terrall is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
1. "The British Way of Tea: Tea as an Object of Knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730" Markman Ellis
2. "Evliya Çelebi, Explorer on Horseback: Knowledge Gathering by a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman" Donna Landry
3. "Indigenous Voyaging, Authorship, and Discovery" Michael Bravo
4. "The World in a Nicknackatory: Encounters and Exchanges in Hans Sloane's Collection" Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering
5. "A Slaving Surgeon's Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America" Kathleen S. Murphy
6. "From the Monumental to Minutiae: Serialising Polynesian Barkcloths in Eighteenth-Century Britain" Billie Lythberg
7. "Formal Encounters: Education, Evangelization, and the Reproduction of Custom in Seventeenth-Century Peru" Matthew Goldmark
8. "Stadial Environmental History in the Voyage Narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster" Noah Heringman
2. "Evliya Çelebi, Explorer on Horseback: Knowledge Gathering by a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman" Donna Landry
3. "Indigenous Voyaging, Authorship, and Discovery" Michael Bravo
4. "The World in a Nicknackatory: Encounters and Exchanges in Hans Sloane's Collection" Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering
5. "A Slaving Surgeon's Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America" Kathleen S. Murphy
6. "From the Monumental to Minutiae: Serialising Polynesian Barkcloths in Eighteenth-Century Britain" Billie Lythberg
7. "Formal Encounters: Education, Evangelization, and the Reproduction of Custom in Seventeenth-Century Peru" Matthew Goldmark
8. "Stadial Environmental History in the Voyage Narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster" Noah Heringman
