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Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

Name: Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Brand: University of Toronto Press
SKU: 9781487503673
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Contributors:

Adriana Craciun (Editor), Mary Terrall (Editor)

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Literary Criticism, History

Book Subcategory:

Modern, European

Book Topic:

18th Century

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library

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Release Date:

2/13/2019

ISBN 13:

9781487503673

Weight:

1.2 lbs

Size:

9.10 x 5.90 x 1.00 inches

Pages:

256

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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.

About the Author
Adriana Craciun is the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities at Boston University.
Mary Terrall is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.