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Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century / / Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall
| Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century / / Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall |
| Autore | Craciun Adriana |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of Toronto Press, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 909.7 |
| Collana | UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - 18th century
Civilization, Western - 18th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
collecting
eighteenth-century empire exploration history of science history indigenous encounters travel writing |
| ISBN |
1-4875-1849-8
1-4875-1848-X 1-4875-3154-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910306633803321 |
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| University of Toronto Press, 2019 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century / / Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall
| Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century / / Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall |
| Autore | Craciun Adriana |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of Toronto Press, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 909.7 |
| Collana | UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - 18th century
Civilization, Western - 18th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
collecting
eighteenth-century empire exploration history of science history indigenous encounters travel writing |
| ISBN |
1-4875-1849-8
1-4875-1848-X 1-4875-3154-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996580170803316 |
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| University of Toronto Press, 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences / / by Adriana Craciun ; edited by Adriana Craciun, Simon Schaffer
| The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences / / by Adriana Craciun ; edited by Adriana Craciun, Simon Schaffer |
| Autore | Craciun Adriana |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVI, 322 p. 54 illus., 36 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 809.033 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 18th century
Literature - History and criticism Books - History European literature Eighteenth-Century Literature Literary History History of the Book European Literature |
| ISBN |
9781137443793
1137443790 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction; Adriana Craciun and Simon Schaffer -- PART I: NATURAL CURIOSITIES -- 1. Essay: Handling objects in natural history collections; Mary Terrall -- 2. Exhibit: Curious work; Mary Brooks -- 3. Exhibit: The lives of Mrs Delaney’s paper plants; Kim Sloan -- 4. Exhibit: A pathological pot; Samuel J.M.M. Alberti -- 5. Essay: The seeds of disaster: relics of La Pérouse; Adriana Craciun -- PART II: TOOLS AND TRAVELS -- 6. Essay: A Bird in the hand, or, manufacturing credibility in the instruments of Enlightenment science; Richard Dunn -- 7. Exhibit: Mapping new spaces; Patricia Seed -- 8. Exhibit: By hand or by engine; Richard Dunn -- 9. Exhibit: The ship as object: the launch of the Queen Charlotte; James Davey -- 10. Exhibit: Instrument of controversy: two copies of the Nautical Almanac; Sophie Waring -- 11. Exhibit: The Navy's new clothes; Amy Miller -- 12. Essay: Unwrapping gods: illuminating encounters with gods, comets and missionaries; Maia Nuku -- PART III: ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES -- 13. Essay: Persons and things; Jonathan Lamb -- 14. Exhibit: The fabric of domestic life: rethinking the humble painted cloth; Tara Hamling -- 15. Exhibit: The Willdey telescope: instrument for fashion, learning and amusement; Alexi Baker -- 16. Exhibit: Cataloguing curiosities: Whitby’s barkcloth book; Billie Lythberg -- 17. Exhibit: Art and things: Fragonard’s colour box; Hannah Williams -- 18. Exhibit: Keep within compass; Katy Barrett -- 19. Exhibit: Perfected thing: a lay figure by Paul Huot; Jane Munro -- PART IV: EXOTIC GOODS -- 20. Essay: A home away from home: Sophie Magdalene’s clockwork chinoiserie; Josefine Baark -- 21. Exhibit: The Chinese tallow tree: from asset in Asia to curse in Carolina; Charles Jarvis -- 22. Exhibit: Global connections: Punch, porcelain and maritime material culture; John McAleer -- 23. Exhibit: A damaged and discarded thing; Anne Gerritsen -- 24. Exhibit: Sarah Sophia Banks, Adam Afzelius and a coin from Sierra Leone; Catherine Eagleton -- 25. Exhibit: A Pacific macrocosm: Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique; Billie Lythberg -- 26. Exhibit: Columen vitae: pharmaceutical packaging 1750-1850; Jennifer Basford -- 27. Essay: Tropical lifestyles, luxury and the health of Britain’s global power, 1793-1825; Jonathan Eacott -- PART V: WORLDS ON PAPER -- 28. Essay: Extra-illustrations: the order of the book and the fantasia of the library; Luisa Calè -- 29. Exhibit: Paperslips; Leanna McLaughlin -- 30. Exhibit: Advertising and print culture in the eighteenth century; Philippa Hubbard -- 31. Exhibit: Kitty Fisher: the commodification of celebrity; Faramerz Dabhoiwala -- 32. Exhibit: An admirable typology; Billie Lythberg, Maia Nuku and Amiria Salmond -- 33. Essay: Connoisseurship and the communication of anatomical knowledge: the case of William Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733); Alexander Wragge-Morley -- Bibliography -- Index.-. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255235003321 |
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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