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 Verlag
2021
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Series: | Global- und Kolonialgeschichte
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Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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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Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (270 p.) |
ISBN: | 9783837655834 9783839455838 |