Representations of Global Civility

English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636–1863

von Sascha R. Klement

270 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Global- und Kolonialgeschichte
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9783837655834
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2021
• Größe: 22.5 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: transcript