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Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends.
List of contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments Introduction
ADRIANA CRACIUN AND MARY TERRALL
1 The British Way of Tea: Tea as an Object of Knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730
MARKMAN ELLIS
2 Evliya Çelebi, Explorer on Horseback: Knowledge Gathering by a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman
DONNA LANDRY
3 Indigenous Voyaging, Authorship, and Discovery
MICHAEL BRAVO
4 The World in a Nicknackatory: Encounters and Exchanges in Hans Sloane’s Collection
MILES OGBORN AND VICTORIA PICKERING
5 A Slaving Surgeon’s Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America
KATHLEEN S. MURPHY
6 From the Monumental to Minutiae: Serializing Polynesian Barkcloths in Eighteenth-Century Britain
BILLIE LYTHBERG
7 Formal Encounters: Education, Evangelization, and the Reproduction of Custom in Seventeenth-Century Peru
MATTHEW GOLDMARK
8 Stadial Environmental History in the Voyage Narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster
NOAH HERINGMAN
Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall
Summary
Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends.
