Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge fo...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.i6a4tu 2023-05-15T15:02:37+02:00 Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century Terrall, Mary Craciun, Adriana 2019-01-01 https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/9f2030a9-c743-44de-adb3-89c722152c3e/assets/external_content.pdf https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/9f2030a9-c743-44de-adb3-89c722152c3e en eng University of Toronto Press ISBN:9781487531546 10670/1.i6a4tu https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/9f2030a9-c743-44de-adb3-89c722152c3e/assets/external_content.pdf https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/9f2030a9-c743-44de-adb3-89c722152c3e lic_creative-commons Open Research Library hist lang Book https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_2f33/ 2019 fttriple 2023-01-22T17:30:05Z Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. 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 essays in this collection restore our understanding of the 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 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. Book Arctic Greenland Unknown Arctic Greenland |
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Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. 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 essays in this collection restore our understanding of the 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 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. |
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