Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century /

Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century /

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"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...

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Other Authors: Terrall, Mary (Editor), Craciun, Adriana, 1967- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: 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]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Eighteenth century.
Discoveries in geography.
Curiosity.
Collectors and collecting.
Civilization, Western.
Civilization, Modern.
HISTORY > World.
Literary studies: general.
Dix-huitieme siecle.
Decouvertes geographiques > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Curiosite > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Civilisation occidentale > 18e siecle.
Civilisation > 18e siecle.
Discoveries in geography > History > 18th century.
Curiosity > History > 18th century.
Collectors and collecting > History > 18th century.
Civilization, Western > 18th century.
Civilization, Modern > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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Summary:"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 of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The voyages and collections rediscovered here do not move from a European center to a distant periphery, nor do they position European authorities as the central agents of this early era of globalization. Long distance voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman Empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends. The dynamic contact zones of these curious encounters include the ice floes of the Arctic, the sociable spaces of the tea table, the hybrid material texts and objects in imperial archives, and the collections belonging to key figures of the Enlightenment, including Sir Hans Sloane and James Petiver."--
Physical Description:1 online resource: illustrations, map
ISBN:9781487531546
Access:Open Access

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