Representations of Global Civility : : English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863 / / Sascha R. Klement.

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 demo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Global- und Kolonialgeschichte ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgements --
Beginnings --
1. Prologue: From Local to Global, From Courtesy to Civility --
2. The Inception of Global Civility --
Enlightened Cosmopolitanism and the Practice of Global Civility --
3. Global Civility and Shipwreck --
4. Global Civility on the Desert Route to India --
Discursive Changes within Global Civility --
5. Two Views of Botany Bay: --
6. The Attraction of Repulsion --
Transitions and Conclusions --
7. From Representational Ambivalence to Colonialism --
8. Epilogue: From Global Civility to Comparative Imperialisms? --
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Summary: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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783839455838
9783110743357
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754087
9783110753851
9783111025100
9783110767315
DOI:10.1515/9783839455838?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Sascha R. Klement.