Book/Printed Material Curious encounters : voyaging, collecting, and making knowledge in the long eighteenth century

Title

• Curious encounters : voyaging, collecting, and making knowledge in the long eighteenth century

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.

Names

• Craciun, Adriana, 1967- editor.
• Terrall, Mary, editor.

Created / Published

• Toronto : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, [2019]

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.

Headings

• -  1700-1799
• -  Civilization, Modern--18th century
• -  Civilization, Western--18th century
• -  Collectors and collecting--History--18th century
• -  Curiosity--History--18th century
• -  Discoveries in geography--History--18th century
• -  Eighteenth century
• -  Civilization, Modern
• -  Civilization, Western
• -  Collectors and collecting
• -  Curiosity
• -  Discoveries in geography

Genre

• History

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (242 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

• CB411

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019667946

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019667946

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019667946

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