Global Exchanges of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Ideas and Materialities c. 1650-1850
1st Edition
Published on 12. March 2024
384 pages
978-1-80543-232-6 (ISBN)
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A pioneering exploration of how differences in production and circulation of texts conveyed ideas around the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.
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Global Exchanges of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Ideas and Materialities c. 1650-1850
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Raven James:
James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford.Raven James:
James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford.
James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford.Raven James:
James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford.
Content
1. Introduction - James Raven
Part One: Knowledge and Reception
2.Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver's Museum - Richard Coulton
3. 'Useful' Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment - Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
4. Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History - James Raven
5. The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China - Trude Dijkstra
6. An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library - Sean Moore
Part Two: Images and News
7. Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England - Isabelle Baudino
8. From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the Late Eighteenth Century - Jean-François Dunyach
9. The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles - Francesco A. Morriello
10. Newspapers and Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean - Cristina Soriano
Part Three: Multiple Diffusions
11. Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions - Despina Magkanari
12. The Diffusion of the Qur'an in Private Enlightenment Libraries - Alicia C. Montoya
13. The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar- Graham Shaw
14. Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China - Cynthia Brokaw
Conclusion - James Raven
Select Bibliography
Index
Part One: Knowledge and Reception
2.Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver's Museum - Richard Coulton
3. 'Useful' Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment - Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
4. Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History - James Raven
5. The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China - Trude Dijkstra
6. An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library - Sean Moore
Part Two: Images and News
7. Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England - Isabelle Baudino
8. From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the Late Eighteenth Century - Jean-François Dunyach
9. The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles - Francesco A. Morriello
10. Newspapers and Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean - Cristina Soriano
Part Three: Multiple Diffusions
11. Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions - Despina Magkanari
12. The Diffusion of the Qur'an in Private Enlightenment Libraries - Alicia C. Montoya
13. The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar- Graham Shaw
14. Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China - Cynthia Brokaw
Conclusion - James Raven
Select Bibliography
Index
