Global exchanges of knowledge in the long eighteenth century : ideas and materialities c. 1650-1850
A pioneering exploration of how differences in production and circulation of texts conveyed ideas around the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Woodbridge Rochester : The Boydell Press,
2024
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Knowledge and Communication in the Enlightenment World
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| Sujets: | Books and reading Enlightenment |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (427 pages) |
| Résumé: | A pioneering exploration of how differences in production and circulation of texts conveyed ideas around the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change. 1 Introduction -- Part One: Knowledge and Reception -- 2 Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver's Museum -- 3 'Useful' Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment -- 4 Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History -- 5 The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China -- 6 An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library -- Part Two: Images and News -- 7 Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England -- 8 From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the late Eighteenth Century -- 9 The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles -- 10 Newspapers and the Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean -- Part Three: Multiple Diffusions -- 11 Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions -- 12 The Diffusion of the Qur'an in Private Libraries, 1665-1830 -- 13 The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar -- 14 Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China -- 15 Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (427 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781805432326 180543232X 9781837650163 1837650160 |