Representations of global civility : English travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863 /
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 demo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript,
[2021]
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| Series: | Global and colonial history ;
volume 5 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (271 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783839455838 3839455839 |