Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century / Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crăciun, Adriana., Editor.

Contributor:

Crăciun, Adriana, Editor.

Terrall, Mary, Editor.

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.

UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--18th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Civilization, Western--18th century.

Civilization, Western.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Toronto Press 2019

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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 symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The voyages and collections rediscovered here do not move from a European center to a distant periphery, nor do they position European authorities as the central agents of this early era of globalization. Long distance 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. The dynamic contact zones of these curious encounters include the ice floes of the Arctic, the sociable spaces of the tea table, the hybrid material texts and objects in imperial archives, and the collections belonging to key figures of the Enlightenment, including Sir Hans Sloane and James Petiver."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-1849-8

1-4875-1848-X

1-4875-3154-0

OCLC:

1083120239

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access