Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ADRIANA CRACIUN AND MARY TERRALL
1 The British Way of Tea: Tea as an Object of Knowledge between Britain and China, 1690–1730
MARKMAN ELLIS
2 Evliya Çelebi, Explorer on Horseback: Knowledge Gathering by a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman
DONNA LANDRY
3 Indigenous Voyaging, Authorship, and Discovery
MICHAEL BRAVO
4 The World in a Nicknackatory: Encounters and Exchanges in Hans Sloane’s Collection
MILES OGBORN AND VICTORIA PICKERING
5 A Slaving Surgeon’s Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America
KATHLEEN S. MURPHY
6 From the Monumental to Minutiae: Serializing Polynesian Barkcloths in Eighteenth-Century Britain
BILLIE LYTHBERG
7 Formal Encounters: Education, Evangelization, and the Reproduction of Custom in Seventeenth-Century Peru
MATTHEW GOLDMARK
8 Stadial Environmental History in the Voyage Narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster
NOAH HERINGMAN
Contributors
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