{"product_id":"oriental-networks-culture-commerce-and-communication-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-9781684482719","title":"Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOriental Networks\u003c\/i\u003e explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of improving transportation technology, expansion of intercultural contacts, and the emergence of a global economy. In eight case studies and a substantial introduction, the volume examines relationships between individuals and institutions, precursors to modern networks that engaged in forms of intercultural exchange. Addressing the exchange of cultural commodities (plants, animals, and artifacts), cultural practices and ideas, the roles of ambassadors and interlopers, and the literary and artistic representation of networks, networkers, and networking, contributors discuss the effects on people previously separated by vast geographical and cultural distance. Rather than idealizing networks as inherently superior to other forms of organization, \u003ci\u003eOriental Networks\u003c\/i\u003e also considers Enlightenment expressions of resistance to networking that inform modern skepticism toward the concept of the global network and its politics. In doing so the volume contributes to the increasingly global understanding of culture and communication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The topic is clearly timely, as questions surrounding globalization and networks continue to be some of the most pressing of the twenty-first century. Such questions thus continue to demand historical investigation that is both substantial in its scholarship and innovative in its approach – a dual hurdle that \u003ci\u003eOriental Networks\u003c\/i\u003e clears with ease, even panache. The editors are to be commended on their choice of contributions, which impressively encompass canonical and non-canonical writers, and contain an embarrassment of archival riches. The fact that the collection is lavishly, intelligently illustrated is a real bonus, too!\" -- Evan Gottlieb * author of Romantic Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750-1830 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Oriental Networks\u003c\/i\u003e provides ample evidence that the networked worlds of the twenty-first century descend, in crucial ways, from eighteenth-century European experiments in global interconnection, both material and conceptual, with a particular focus on the East. The ambivalence of eighteenth-century orientalisms lends itself to the complex and sometimes unpredictable dynamics of transculturation and exchange within emergent paradigms of empire. These case studies invite response from non-Eurocentric sites of knowledge and thus initiate an important conversation.\" -- Eugenia Zuroski * author of A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgment\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Oriental Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Bärbel Czennia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Knowing and Growing Tea: China, Britain, and the Formation of a Modern Global Commodity\u003cbr\u003e Richard Coulton\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: China-Pugs: The Global Circulation of Chinoiseries, Porcelain, and Lapdogs, 1660–1800\u003cbr\u003e Stephanie Howard-Smith\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Green Rubies from the Ganges: Eighteenth-Century Gardening as Intercultural Networking\u003cbr\u003e Bärbel Czennia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Blood of Noble Martyrs: Penelope Aubin’s Global Economy of Virtue as Critique of Imperial Networks\u003cbr\u003e Samara Anne Cahill\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Robert Morrison and the Dialogic Representation of Imperial China\u003cbr\u003e Jennifer L. Hargrave\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: At Home with Empire? Charles Lamb, the East India Company, and “The South Sea House”\u003cbr\u003e James Watt\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Commerce and Cosmology on Lord George Macartney’s Embassy to China, 1792–94\u003cbr\u003e Greg Clingham\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Extreme Networking: Maria Graham’s Mountaintop, Underground, Intercontinental, and Otherwise Multidimensional Connections\u003cbr\u003e Kevin L. Cope\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors","brand":"Bucknell University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49411389784407,"sku":"9781684482719","price":34.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781684482719.jpg?v=1730513439","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/oriental-networks-culture-commerce-and-communication-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-9781684482719","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}