Representations of global civility
| Titel: | Representations of global civility : English travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863 / Sascha R. Klement |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Bielefeld : Transcript, 2021 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (271 pages) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Global and colonial history ; volume 5 |
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe: Klement, Sascha R. Representations of Global Civility. - Bielefeld : transcript, ©2021
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| ISBN: | 9783839455838 ; 9783837655834 ; 3837655830 |
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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.
