Representations of Global Civility
| Titel: | Representations of Global Civility : English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863 |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Bielefeld : transcript Verlag ; transcript Verlag [Imprint], 2021 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (270 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Global- und Kolonialgeschichte ; 5 |
| ISBN: | 9783837655834 ; 9783839455838 |
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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.
