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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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania :
Bucknell University Press,
[2021]
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Table des matières:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Knowing and Growing Tea: China, Britain, and the Formation of a Modern Global Commodity / Richard Coulton
- 2. China-Pugs: The Global Circulation of Chinoiseries, Porcelain, and Lapdogs, 1660-1800 / Stephanie Howard-Smith
- 3. Green Rubies from the Ganges: Eighteenth-Century Gardening as Intercultural Networking / Barbel Czennia
- 4. The Blood of Noble Martyrs: Penelope Aubin's Global Economy of Virtue as Critique of Imperial Networks / Samara Anne Cahill
- 5. Robert Morrison and the Dialogic Representation of Imperial China / Jennifer L. Hargrave
- 6. At Home with Empire? Charles Lamb, the East India Company, and "The South Sea House" / James Watt
- 7. Commerce and Cosmology on Lord George Macartney's Embassy to China, 1792
- 1794 / Greg Clincham
- 8. Extreme Networking: Maria Graham's Mountaintop, Underground, Intercontinental, and Otherwise Multidimensional Connections / Kevin L. Cope.