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

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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 of sym...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bravo, Michael (Contribuidor), Craciun, Adriana (Editor , Contribuidor), Ellis, Markman (Contribuidor), Goldmark, Matthew (Contribuidor), Heringman, Noah (Contribuidor), Landry, Donna (Contribuidor), Lythberg, Billie (Contribuidor), Murphy, Kathleen S. (Contribuidor), Ogborn, Miles (Contribuidor), Pickering, Victoria (Contribuidor), Terrall, Mary (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
Temas:
Civilization, Modern > 18th century.
Civilization, Western > 18th century.
Collectors and collecting > History > 18th century.
Curiosity > History > 18th century.
Discoveries in geography > History > 18th century.
Eighteenth century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century .
collecting.
eighteenth-century.
empire.
exploration.
history of science.
history.
indigenous encounters.
travel.
writing.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The British Way of Tea: Tea as an Object of Knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730
  • Chapter Two. Evliya Çelebi, Explorer on Horseback: Knowledge Gathering by a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman
  • Chapter Three: Indigenous Voyaging, Authorship, and Discovery
  • Chapter Four. The World in a Nicknackatory: Encounters and Exchanges in Hans Sloane's Collection
  • Chapter Five. A Slaving Surgeon's Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America
  • Chapter Six. From the Monumental to Minutiae: Serializing Polynesian Barkcloths in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • Chapter Seven. Formal Encounters: Education, Evangelization, and the Reproduction of Custom in Seventeenth-Century Peru
  • Chapter Eight. Stadial Environmental History in the Voyage Narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • THE UCLA CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY SERIES

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