Representations of Global Civility
English Travellers in the Ottoman Empire and the South Pacific, 1636–1863
- 260 pages
- 10 hours of reading
By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific in English travel writing during the long eighteenth century, Sascha Klement demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconnections, and exchanges across cultural divides.
