A history of curiosity : the theory of travel, 1550-1800 / Justin Stagl.
1995
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Title
A history of curiosity : the theory of travel, 1550-1800 / Justin Stagl.
Created/published
Chur, Switzerland ; [Langhorne, Pa.], U.S. : Harwood Academic Publishers, ©1995.
Description
viii, 344 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Studies in anthropology and history, 1055-2464 ; v. 13
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-329) and indexes.
Contents
The methodizing of travel in the sixteenth century : a tale of three cities
Rerum memoria : early modern enquiries and documentation centres
Imagines mundi : allegories of the continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment
The man who called himself George Psalmanazar, or, The problems of the authenticity of ethnographic description
Josephinism and social research : the "patriotic traveller" of Count Leopold Berchtold
August Ludwig Schlözer and the study of mankind according to peoples
From the private to the sponsored traveller : Volney's reform of travel instruction and the French Revolution.
Rerum memoria : early modern enquiries and documentation centres
Imagines mundi : allegories of the continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment
The man who called himself George Psalmanazar, or, The problems of the authenticity of ethnographic description
Josephinism and social research : the "patriotic traveller" of Count Leopold Berchtold
August Ludwig Schlözer and the study of mankind according to peoples
From the private to the sponsored traveller : Volney's reform of travel instruction and the French Revolution.
Series
Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 13.
Place of creation/publication
Switzerland.
Call number
GN33 .S7