Representations of Global Civility English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3837655834
• ISBN-13: 978-3839455838
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bielefeld transcript Verlag, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 461301
• Chủ đề: 1. Cultural History; 2. Early Modern History; 3. European History; 4. Global History; 5. Globalization

Tóm tắt

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.