Curious Encounters

Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781487518486
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Medieval & Early Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One. The British Way of Tea: Tea as an Object of Knowledge between Britain and China, 1690–1730
• Chapter Two. Evliya Çelebi, Explorer on Horseback: Knowledge Gathering by a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman
• Chapter Three: Indigenous Voyaging, Authorship, and Discovery
• Chapter Four. The World in a Nicknackatory: Encounters and Exchanges in Hans Sloane’s Collection
• Chapter Five. A Slaving Surgeon’s Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America
• Chapter Six. From the Monumental to Minutiae: Serializing Polynesian Barkcloths in Eighteenth-Century Britain
• Chapter Seven. Formal Encounters: Education, Evangelization, and the Reproduction of Custom in Seventeenth-Century Peru
• Chapter Eight. Stadial Environmental History in the Voyage Narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster
• Contributors
• Index
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