Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series) - Image 1

£43.13

University of Toronto Press Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series)

Name: Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series)
Brand: University of Toronto Press
Price: 43.13 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£43 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 33 days • 33 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 33 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £43 (33 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £43 - £43

Price levels: 1 different prices over 33 days

Description

With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The voyages and collections rediscovered here do not move from a European center to a distant periphery, nor do they position European authorities as the central agents of this early era of globalization. Long distance 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. The dynamic contact zones of these curious encounters include the ice floes of the Arctic, the sociable spaces of the tea table, the hybrid material texts and objects in imperial archives, and the collections belonging to key figures of the Enlightenment, including Sir Hans Sloane and James Petiver.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Toronto Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1487503679
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 13 February 2019
Listed Since: 24 March 2018

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Toronto Press Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series)

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Facing Each Other (2 Volumes): The World’s Perception of Europe and Europe’s Perception of the World: 31 (An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800)

Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World (Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge)

Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television, 2000–2015

Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800

Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment

News from Abroad: Letters Written by British Travellers on the Grand Tour, 1728-71: 3 (Eighteenth Century Worlds)

Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569-1750

Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800

The Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky

A History of the Two Indies: A Translated Selection of Writings from Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements des Européens dans les Deux Indes

Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War: Reflections on the Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe

Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds: Global and Local Geographies of Art

Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology

The Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky

A Cultural History of Exploration: Volumes 1-6 (The Cultural Histories Series)

Daily Life in 18th-Century England (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)

Early Modern Overseas Careers: East-Central Europeans as Jesuit Missionaries and Dutch East India Employees (GLOBAL EASTS - CEU Press)

Charting the Past: The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England

Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800

A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment (The Cultural Histories Series)

Visualizing the Text: From Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature

Travellers and Cosmographers: Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology (Variorum Collected Studies)

Travellers and Cosmographers: Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology (Variorum Collected Studies)