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almafu_9959018084202883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781487518486
Series Statement:
UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction /
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Chapter One. The British Way of Tea: Tea as an Object of Knowledge between Britain and China, 1690–1730 /
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Chapter Two. Evliya Çelebi, Explorer on Horseback: Knowledge Gathering by a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman /
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Chapter Three: Indigenous Voyaging, Authorship, and Discovery /
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Chapter Four. The World in a Nicknackatory: Encounters and Exchanges in Hans Sloane’s Collection /
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Chapter Five. A Slaving Surgeon’s Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America /
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Chapter Six. From the Monumental to Minutiae: Serializing Polynesian Barkcloths in Eighteenth-Century Britain /
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Chapter Seven. Formal Encounters: Education, Evangelization, and the Reproduction of Custom in Seventeenth-Century Peru /
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Chapter Eight. Stadial Environmental History in the Voyage Narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster /
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Contributors --
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Index --
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THE UCLA CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY SERIES
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781487518486
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487518486
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487518486
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