Curious Encounters

Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Herausgeber: Craciun, Adriana; Terrall, Mary

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9781487503673
• ISBN-10: 1487503679
• Artikelnr.: 52413947

Autorenporträt

Edited by Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall

Inhaltsangabe

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