The methodizing of travel in the sixteenth century : a tale of three cities -- Rerum memoria : early modern enquiries and documentation centres -- Imagines mundi : allegories of the continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment -- The man who called himself George Psalmanazar, or, The problems of the authenticity of ethnographic description -- Josephinism and social research : the "patriotic traveller" of Count Leopold Berchtold -- August Ludwig Schlözer and the study of mankind according to peoples -- From the private to the sponsored traveller : Volney's reform of travel instruction and the French Revolution
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-329) and indexes
Notes
Originally published 1995, reprinted 2004, transferred to digital printing 2004
