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A history of curiosity : the theory of travel, 1550-1800 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stagl, Justin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Colección:Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The methodizing of travel in the sixteenth century : a tale of three cities
  • Rerum memoria : early modern enquiries and documentation centres
  • Imagines mundi : allegories of the continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment
  • The man who called himself George Psalmanazar, or, The problems of the authenticity of ethnographic description
  • Josephinism and social research : the "patriotic traveller" of Count Leopold Berchtold
  • August Ludwig Schlözer and the study of mankind according to peoples
  • From the private to the sponsored traveller : Volney's reform of travel instruction and the French Revolution.