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Author:   Prof James Raven ,  Isabelle Baudino ,  Cynthia Brokaw ,  Richard Coulton
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Boydell & Brewer
Weight:   0.001kg
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9781837650163

ISBN 10:   1837650160
Pages:   426
Publication Date:   12 March 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction - James Raven Part One: Knowledge and Reception 2 .Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver's Museum - Richard Coulton 3. 'Useful' Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment - Alexandra Ortolja-Baird 4. Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History - James Raven 5. The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China - Trude Dijkstra 6. An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library - Sean Moore Part Two: Images and News 7. Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England - Isabelle Baudino 8. From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the Late Eighteenth Century - Jean-François Dunyach 9. The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles - Francesco A. Morriello 10. Newspapers and Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean - Cristina Soriano Part Three: Multiple Diffusions 11. Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions - Despina Magkanari 12. The Diffusion of the Qur'an in Private Enlightenment Libraries - Alicia C. Montoya 13. The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar- Graham Shaw 14. Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China - Cynthia Brokaw Conclusion - James Raven Select Bibliography Index

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James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford. James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford.

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