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Oriental networks : culture, commerce, and communication in the long eighteenth century /
"Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of improving transportation technology, expansion of intercultural contacts, and the emergence of a global economy. In eight case studies and a substantia...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lewisberg, Pennsylvania :
Bucknell University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Oriental Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century
- 1. Knowing and Growing Tea: China, Britain, and the Formation of a Modern Global Commodity
- 2. China-Pugs: The Global Circulation of Chinoiseries, Porcelain, and Lapdogs, 1660-1800
- 3. Green Rubies from the Ganges: Eighteenth-Century Gardening as Intercultural Networking
- 4. The Blood of Noble Martyrs: Penelope Aubin's Global Economy of Virtue as Critique of Imperial Networks
- 5. Robert Morrison and the Dialogic Representation of Imperial China
- 6. At Home with Empire? Charles Lamb, the East India Company, and "The South Sea House"
- 7. Commerce and Cosmology on Lord George Macartney's Embassy to China, 1792-1794
- 8. Extreme Networking: Maria Graham's Mountaintop, Underground, Intercontinental, and Otherwise Multidimensional Connections
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index