TY  - BOOK
AU  - Terrall,Mary
AU  - Craciun,Adriana
TI  - Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century 
SN  - 9781487531546
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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. The essays in this collection restore our understanding of the encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this, the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The dynamic contact zones of these curious encounters include the ice floes of the Arctic, the sociable spaces of the tea table, the hybrid material texts and objects in imperial archives, and the collections belonging to key figures of the Enlightenment
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/9f2030a9-c743-44de-adb3-89c722152c3e
ER  -