Oriental Networks : Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century /

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Clingham, Greg (Editor ), Czennia, Bärbel, 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social networks.
Globalization.
Enlightenment.
East and West.
Civilization, Modern.
Enlightenment > History > 18th century.
Social networks > History > 18th century.
Civilization, Modern > 18th century.
Globalization > History > 18th century.
East and West > History > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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