Oriental networks : culture, commerce, and communication in the long eighteenth century /

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of improving transportation technology, expansion of intercultural contacts and the emergence of a global economy. In eight case studies and a substantial intro...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Czennia, Bärbel, 1961- (Editor), Clingham, Greg (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2021]
Series:	Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Subjects:	East and West > History > 18th century. Globalization > History > 18th century. Civilization, Modern > 18th century. Social networks > History > 18th century. Enlightenment > History > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

1. Knowing and Growing Tea: China, Britain, and the Formation of a Modern Global Commodity / Richard Coulton
2. China-Pugs: The Global Circulation of Chinoiseries, Porcelain, and Lapdogs, 1660-1800 / Stephanie Howard-Smith
3. Green Rubies from the Ganges: Eighteenth-Century Gardening as Intercultural Networking / Barbel Czennia
4. The Blood of Noble Martyrs: Penelope Aubin's Global Economy of Virtue as Critique of Imperial Networks / Samara Anne Cahill
5. Robert Morrison and the Dialogic Representation of Imperial China / Jennifer L. Hargrave
6. At Home with Empire? Charles Lamb, the East India Company, and "The South Sea House" / James Watt
7. Commerce and Cosmology on Lord George Macartney's Embassy to China, 1792
1794 / Greg Clincham
8. Extreme Networking: Maria Graham's Mountaintop, Underground, Intercontinental, and Otherwise Multidimensional Connections / Kevin L. Cope.