Representations of Global Civility : English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863

Representations of Global Civility : English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863

Literature

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.

Sascha R. Klement

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transcript Verlag

2021

Prasetyo Adi Nugroho

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839455838
ISBN: 9783839455838