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Representations of Global Civility: English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863
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Abstract 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, the author adopts a uniquely global perspective and demonstr... view more
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, the author 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.... view less
Keywords
travel; writing; seventeenth century; eighteenth century; nineteenth century; Ottoman Empire; Pacific Rim; literature; globalization; cultural history
Classification
General History
Free Keywords
South Pacific; The Long Eighteenth Century; Global History; Migration; European History; Early Modern History
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
268 p.
Series
Global- und Kolonialgeschichte, 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839455838
ISSN
2702-9328
ISBN
978-3-8394-5583-8
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0