Description |
1 online resource (ix, 334 pages). |
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text file |
Series |
Early American History Series: The American Colonies, 1500-1830 ; Volume 8
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Early American history series ; v. 8.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: making sense of colonial encounters and new worlds / Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite -- Part I. Cultural encounters -- Touching on communication: visual and textual representations of touch as friendship in early colonial encounters / Celine Carayon -- Mission soundscapes: demons, Jesuits, and sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya's Conquista espiritual (1639) / Jutta Toelle -- Singing with strangers in early seventeenth-century New France / Michaela Ann Cameron -- Part II. Colonial subjectivity -- The pain of senses escaping: eighteenth-century Europeans and the sensory challenges of the Caribbean / Annika Raapke -- Color visions: perceiving nature in the Portuguese Atlantic world / Marilia dos Santos Lopes -- Part III. Structures of knowledge -- Colonial sensescapes: Thomas Harriot and the production of knowledge / Daniela Hacke -- Merian and the pineapple: visual representation of the senses / Megan Baumhammer and Claire Kennedy -- "Delightful a fragrance": native American olfactory aesthetics within the eighteenth-century Anglo-American botanical community / Andrew Kettler -- Part IV. Colonial projects -- The aromas of flora's wide domains: cultivating gardens, aromas, and political subjects in the late seventeenth-century English Atlantic / Kate Mulry -- Exploring underwater worlds: diving in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth-century British empire / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
America -- Social life and customs.
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America. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Senses and sensation -- Social aspects -- America -- History.
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Senses and sensation -- Social aspects. |
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History. |
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Senses and sensation. |
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Europe -- Colonies -- America -- History.
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Europe. |
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Colonies. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
Hacke, Daniela, editor, contributor.
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Musselwhite, Paul, editor, contributor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Empire of the senses. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004340633 (DLC) 2017031087 |
ISBN |
9789004340640 (electronic book) |
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9004340645 (electronic book) |
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9004340645 |
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9789004340633 (hardcover) |
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