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.
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.
Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ADRIANA CRACIUN AND MARY TERRALL 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: Serializing 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 Contributors Index
Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ADRIANA CRACIUN AND MARY TERRALL 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: Serializing 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 Contributors Index
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