Craciun / Terrall Curious Encounters

Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4875-1848-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craciun, Adriana

Terrall, Mary

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. “The British Way of Tea: Tea as an Object of Knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730” Markman Ellis
2. “Evliya Çelebi, Explorer on Horseback: Knowledge Gathering by a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman” Donna Landry
3. “Indigenous Voyaging, Authorship, and Discovery” Michael Bravo
4. “The World in a Nicknackatory: Encounters and Exchanges in Hans Sloane’s Collection” Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering
5. “A Slaving Surgeon’s Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America” Kathleen S. Murphy
6. “From the Monumental to Minutiae: Serialising Polynesian Barkcloths in Eighteenth-Century Britain” Billie Lythberg
7. “Formal Encounters: Education, Evangelization, and the Reproduction of Custom in Seventeenth-Century Peru” Matthew Goldmark
8. “Stadial Environmental History in the Voyage Narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster” Noah Heringman

Über Autor(innen)

CraciunAdriana:
Adriana Craciun is the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities at Boston University.
TerrallMary:
Mary Terrall is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.