Representations of Global Civility von Sascha R. Klement | English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636–1863 | ISBN 9783837655834

Representations of Global Civility

English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636–1863

von Sascha R. Klement
Buchcover Representations of Global Civility | Sascha R. Klement | EAN 9783837655834 | ISBN 3-8376-5583-0 | ISBN 978-3-8376-5583-4

Representations of Global Civility

English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636–1863

von Sascha R. Klement
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.