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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Ausgabe: 1. Auflage
Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld : transcript, 2021
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9783839455838 ; 9783837655834
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Zusammenfassung: 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.