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Author Hacke, Daniela

Title Empire of the Senses : Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America
Published Boston : BRILL, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages)
Series Early American History Ser
Early American History Ser
Contents ""Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents ""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction: Making Sense of Colonial Encounters and New Worlds""; ""Part 1: Cultural Encounters""; ""1 Touching on Communication: Visual and Textual Representations of Touch as Friendship in Early Colonial Encounters""; ""2 Mission Soundscapes: Demons, Jesuits, and Sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoyaâ#x80;#x99;s Conquista Espiritual (1639)""; ""3 Singing with Strangers in Early Seventeenth-Century New France""
""Part 2: Colonial Subjectivity""""4 The Pain of Senses Escaping: Eighteenth-Century Europeans and the Sensory Challenges of the Caribbean""; ""5 Color Visions: Perceiving Nature in the Portuguese Atlantic World""; ""Part 3: Structures of Knowledge""; "" 6 Colonial Sensescapes: Thomas Harriot and the Production of Knowledge""; ""7 Merian and the Pineapple: Visual Representation of the Senses""; ""8 â#x80;#x9C;Delightful a Fragranceâ#x80;#x9D;: Native American Olfactory Aesthetics within the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Botanical Community""; ""Part 4:Colonial Projects""
""9 The Aromas of Floraâ#x80;#x99;s Wide Domains: Cultivating Gardens, Aromas, and Political Subjects in the Late Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic""""10 Exploring Underwater Worlds: Diving in the Late Seventeenth-/Early Eighteenth-Century British Empire""
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Subject America-Social life and customs
Europe-Colonies-America-History
Senses and sensation-Social aspects-America-History
Form Electronic book
Author Musselwhite, Paul
ISBN 9789004340640
9004340645