Representations of Global Civility
English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636-1863
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Travel; Travel Writing; Ottoman Empire; South Pacific; The Long Eighteenth Century; Literature; Global History; Globalization; Cultural History; Migration; European History; Early Modern History; HistoryDOI
10.14361/9783839455838ISBN
9783839455838, 9783837655834, 9783839455838Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, 2021Imprint
transcript VerlagSeries
Global- und Kolonialgeschichte, 5Classification
European history
General and world history
Social and cultural history