Global Exchanges of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century: Ideas and Materialities c. 1650–1850 (Knowledge and Communication in the Enlightenment World)

Front cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Part One: Knowledge and Reception
	2 Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver’s Museum
	3 ‘Useful’ Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment
	4 Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History
	5 The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China
	6 An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library
Part Two: Images and News
	7 Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England
	8 From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the late Eighteenth Century
	9 The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles
	10 Newspapers and the Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the  Spanish Caribbean
Part Three: Multiple Diffusions
	11 Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d’Herbelot’s Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions
	12 The Diffusion of the Qur’an in Private Libraries, 1665-1830
	13 The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar
	14 Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China
15 Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index