Curious encounters : voyaging, collecting, and making knowledge in the long eighteenth century /
Curious encounters : voyaging, collecting, and making knowledge in the long eighteenth century /
edited by Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall.
- 1 online resource (vi, 242 pages) : illustrations, map.
- UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 26 .
- UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 26. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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."--
9781487518486 148751848X 9781487531546 1487531540
102814 Knowledge Unlatched
1700-1799
Civilization, Modern--18th century.
Civilization, Western--18th century.
Eighteenth century.
Collectors and collecting--History--18th century.
Curiosity--History--18th century.
Discoveries in geography--History--18th century.
HISTORY / World
Literary studies: general
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization, Western.
Collectors and collecting.
Curiosity.
Discoveries in geography.
Eighteenth century.
collecting.
eighteenth-century.
empire.
exploration.
history of science.
history.
indigenous encounters.
travel.
writing.
History.
Electronic books.
CB411 / .C87 2019eb
909.7
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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."--
9781487518486 148751848X 9781487531546 1487531540
102814 Knowledge Unlatched
1700-1799
Civilization, Modern--18th century.
Civilization, Western--18th century.
Eighteenth century.
Collectors and collecting--History--18th century.
Curiosity--History--18th century.
Discoveries in geography--History--18th century.
HISTORY / World
Literary studies: general
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization, Western.
Collectors and collecting.
Curiosity.
Discoveries in geography.
Eighteenth century.
collecting.
eighteenth-century.
empire.
exploration.
history of science.
history.
indigenous encounters.
travel.
writing.
History.
Electronic books.
CB411 / .C87 2019eb
909.7