Empire of the senses : sensory practices of colonialism in early America / / edited by Daniela Hacke, Paul Musselwhite.

• Superior document: Early American History, Volume 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Hacke, Daniela,; Musselwhite, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Early American history ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 pages) :; color illustrations.
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; Introduction: Making Sense of Colonial Encounters and New Worlds /; Cultural Encounters --; Touching on Communication: Visual and Textual Representations of Touch as Friendship in Early Colonial Encounters /; Mission Soundscapes: Demons, Jesuits, and Sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya’s Conquista Espiritual (1639) /; Singing with Strangers in Early Seventeenth-Century New France /; Colonial Subjectivity --; The Pain of Senses Escaping: Eighteenth-Century Europeans and the Sensory Challenges of the Caribbean /; Color Visions: Perceiving Nature in the Portuguese Atlantic World /; Structures of Knowledge --; Colonial Sensescapes: Thomas Harriot and the Production of Knowledge /; Merian and the Pineapple: Visual Representation of the Senses /; “Delightful a Fragrance”: Native American Olfactory Aesthetics within the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Botanical Community /; Colonial Projects --; The Aromas of Flora’s Wide Domains: Cultivating Gardens, Aromas, and Political Subjects in the Late Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic /; Exploring Underwater Worlds: Diving in the Late Seventeenth-/Early Eighteenth-Century British Empire /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004340645
• ISSN: 1877-0216
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Daniela Hacke, Paul Musselwhite.

Empire of the Senses brings together pathbreaking scholarship on the role the five senses played in early America. With perspectives from across the hemisphere, exploring individual senses and multi-sensory frameworks, the volume explores how sensory perception helped frame cultural encounters, colonial knowledge, and political relationships. From early French interpretations of intercultural touch, to English plans to restructure the scent of Jamaica, these essays elucidate different ways the expansion of rival European empires across the Americas involved a vast interconnected range of sensory experiences and practices. Empire of the Senses offers a new comparative perspective on the way European imperialism was constructed, operated, implemented and, sometimes, counteracted by rich and complex new sensory frameworks in the diverse contexts of early America. This book has been listed on the Books of Note section on the website of Sensory Studies, which is dedicated to highlighting the top books in sensory studies: www.sensorystudies.org/books-of-note