Description: Further DetailsTitle: Curious EncountersCondition: NewEAN: 9781487503673ISBN: 9781487503673Publisher: University of Toronto PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/13/2019Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 159mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 520gContributor: Mary Terrall (Edited by), Adriana Craciun (Edited by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth CenturyISBN-10: 1487503679Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: CABook Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library SeriesTopic: History, Literary Criticism, FictionGenre: Home Garden & PetsAuthor: Mary TerrallRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Curious Encounters
Title: Curious Encounters
EAN: 9781487503673
ISBN: 9781487503673
Release Date: 02/13/2019
Release Year: 2019
Contributor: Adriana Craciun (Edited by)
Subtitle: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth
ISBN-10: 1487503679
Country/Region of Manufacture: CA
Topic: Fiction
Genre: Home Garden & Pets
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Civilization, Modern / 18th Century, General, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Antiques & Collectibles, Psychology, History
Author: Mary Terrall
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: Ucla Clark Memorial Library Ser.
Format: Hardcover
