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Title The global eighteenth century / edited by Felicity A. Nussbaum
Published Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

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Description xiv, 385 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Series Annual supplement to volume 31, History of political economy
History of political economy. Annual supplement ; 1999
Contents Mapping an exotic world : the global project of Dutch geography, circa 1700 / Benjamin Schmidt -- Tupaia : Polynesian warrior, navigator, high priest-- and artist / Glyndwr Williams -- The Caribbean Islands in Atlantic context, circa 1500-1800 / Philip D. Morgan -- Bringing India to hand : mapping an empire, denying space / Matthew H. Edney -- Concealing the bounds : imagining the British nation through China / Robert Batchelor -- The global parasol : accessorizing the four corners of the world / Joseph Roach -- Oceans and floods : fables of global perspective / Laura Brown -- Proxies of power : woman in the colonial archive / Betty Joseph -- The narrative of Elizabeth Marsh : barbary, sex, and power / Linda Colley -- The lama and the Scotsman : George Bogle in Bhutan and Tibet, 1774-1775 / Kate Teltscher -- The English garden conversation piece in India / Beth Fowkes Tobin -- Black, yellow, and white on St. Vincent : Moreau de Jonnès's Carib ethnography / Peter Hulme -- Marketing mulatresses in the paintings and prints of Agostino Brunias / Kay Dian Kriz -- Archipelagic encounters : war, race, and labor in American-Caribbean waters / Nicholas Rogers -- Questioning the identity of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / Vincent Carretta -- The point Venus "Scene," Tahiti, 14 May 1769 / Neil Rennie -- Island transactions : encounter and disease in the South Pacific / Rod Edmond -- George Berkeley the Islander : some reflections on utopia, race, and tar-water / Carole Fabricant -- Inhuming empire : islands as colonial nurseries and graves / Jill Casid -- South Seas trade and the character of captains / Anna Neill -- Voyaging the past, present, and future : historical reenactments on HM Bark Endeavor and the voyaging canoe Hokule'a in the sea of islands / Greg Dening
Analysis Eighteenth century
Notes Based on many of the papers presented at a yearlong series of conferences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-370) and index
Subject Colonies -- Relations -- Europe.
History, Modern -- 18th century.
Slavery -- History -- 18th century.
Intercultural communication -- History.
Slavery.
Imperialism -- History -- 18th century.
SUBJECT Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Colonies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005254
Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 -- Colonies -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012516 -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012474
Author Nussbaum, Felicity.
LC no. 2002012550
ISBN 0801868653 hardback alkaline paper
0801872243 hardcover alkaline paper