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 |
Craciun Adriana
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| University of Toronto Press, 2019 | ||
| 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 |
Craciun Adriana
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| University of Toronto Press, 2019 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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