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Title Empire of the senses : sensory practices of colonialism in early America / edited by Daniela Hacke, Paul Musselwhite.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 334 pages).
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Series Early American History Series: The American Colonies, 1500-1830 ; Volume 8
Early American history series ; v. 8.
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.
America.
Manners and customs.
Senses and sensation -- Social aspects -- America -- History.
Senses and sensation -- Social aspects.
History.
Senses and sensation.
Europe -- Colonies -- America -- History.
Europe.
Colonies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Hacke, Daniela, editor, contributor.
Musselwhite, Paul, editor, contributor.
Other Form: Print version: Empire of the senses. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004340633 (DLC) 2017031087
ISBN 9789004340640 (electronic book)
9004340645 (electronic book)
9004340645
9789004340633 (hardcover)