A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel-1550-1800

ISBN-13: 9783718653423 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 352 str.

Justin Stagl;Justin Stagl

Opis

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

"...Stagl's explorations of late eighteenth-century debates over the nature of World History are also enlightening, as they reveal the origins of Volkskunde and ethnologie - categories that were to dominate travel and scholarship for the next two centries to the present." -- The Voltaire Foundation of University of Oxford, John P. Mitchell, Queens College, Cambridge
"This strikingly original, painstakingly researched...book exhibits all the virtues and a few of the weaknesses of long-sustained maverick devotion. Though not exclusively focused upon travel, it will remain a pillar of scholarship in travel history...For anyone interested in the history of travel cultures this book - with its rich references to primary manuscript sources and German historical scholarship not available in English - will prove indispensable." -- Judith Adler of Department of Sociology, Memorial University of New Foundland, Canada

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Justin Stagl