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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 of sy...

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Kolejni autorzy: Terrall, Mary (Redaktor), Craciun, Adriana, 1967- (Redaktor)
Format: Elektroniczne E-book
Język:angielski
Wydane: 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]
Seria:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Hasła przedmiotowe:
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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Spis treści:
  • 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.

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