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Record Nr.

UNISA996571868603316

Autore

Klement Sascha R (University of Exeter, Großbritannien)

Titolo

Representations of Global Civility : English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863 / Sascha R. Klement

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

3-8394-5583-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Global- und Kolonialgeschichte ; 5

Disciplina

338.1

Soggetti

Travel; Travel Writing; Ottoman Empire; South Pacific; The Long Eighteenth Century; Literature; Global History; Globalization; Cultural History; Migration; European History; Early Modern History; History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Beginnings -- 1. Prologue: From Local to Global, From Courtesy to Civility -- 2. The Inception of Global Civility -- Enlightened Cosmopolitanism and the Practice of Global Civility -- 3. Global Civility and Shipwreck -- 4. Global Civility on the Desert Route to India -- Discursive Changes within Global Civility -- 5. Two Views of Botany Bay: -- 6. The Attraction of Repulsion -- Transitions and Conclusions -- 7. From Representational Ambivalence to Colonialism -- 8. Epilogue: From Global Civility to Comparative Imperialisms? -- Works Cited

Sommario/riassunto

Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific, Sascha Klement adopts a uniquely global perspective and demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconnections, and even-handed exchanges across cultural divides. In so doing, this book shows that both travel and travel-writing from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries were much more complex and multi-layered than reductive Eurocentric histories often suggest.