Mohammad Sakhnini

British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751-1795

Rethinking Enlightenment Improvement

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Produktbeschreibung

The book examines the relationship between the Enlightenment idea of improvement and eighteenth-century travel writings about Middle Eastern overland routes to India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781785279362
• ISBN-10: 178527936X
• Artikelnr.: 61445224

Autorenporträt

Mohammad Sakhnini completed his graduate studies at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. He taught at the universities of Exeter, Sussex and Brighton and held a research fellowship at the University of Linnaeus, Sweden. Currently, he is a senior lecturer in English Studies at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgment
 Introduction
 Chapter One Improvement of Knowledge: John Carmichael's A Journey From Aleppo to Busserah, Over the Desert (1772)
 Chapter Two Polite Englishman in the East: Edward Ives's Journey from Persia to England (1773)
 Chapter Three Commerce, Virtue and Improvement: Abraham Parsons's Travel in Asia and Africa (1808)
 Chapter Four Henry Abbott: A Cosmopolitan in Cities and Deserts
 Chapter Five Eyles Irwin's Travels: The Politics of Adventure in the Levant
 Chapter Six Political and Moral Improvement: Donald Campbell, A Journey Overland to India Partly by A Route Never Gone Before by Any European (1795)
 Conclusion
 Unpublished Manuscripts
 Reference List
 Index