Curious encounters : voyaging, collecting, and making knowledge in the long eighteenth century /
"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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,
[2019]
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Colección: | UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall
- The British way of tea : tea as an object of knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730 / Markman Ellis
- Evliya Çelebi, explorer on horseback : knowledge gathering by a seventeenth-century Ottoman / Donna Landry
- Indigenous voyaging, authorship, and discovery / Michael Bravo
- The world in a nicknackatory : encounters and exchanges in Hans Sloane's collection / Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering
- A slaving surgeon's collection : the pursuit of natural history through the British slave trade to Spanish America / Kathleen S. Murphy
- From the monumental to the minutiae : serializing Polynesian barkcloths in eighteenth-century Britain / Billie Lythberg
- Formal encounters : education, evangelization, and the reproduction of custom in seventeenth-century Peru / Matthew Goldmark
- Stadial environmental history in the voyage narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster / Noah Heringman.