How did European travellers of early modern and modern ages relate to the cultural encounter with otherness? How did they observe, conceptualise, and represent cultures, customs, and forms of social and political organisation perceived as different from those of the Old World?
The case studies considered by the authors of this volume consider testimonies of those who travelled the globe for purposes of scientific exploration or religious mission, for commercial or administrative reasons, policy making, philanthropy.
Their analyses share the methodological tools and perspectives of a new cultural history, in dialogue with the history of political-economic thought, exploiting visual and aural-performative sources, and the knowledge of non-European historiographical traditions.
The essays also have a common interest in global history, i.e. they dwell on the development of connections and communications straddling geographical, political and linguistic borders, and trace their consequences within specific historical-geographical contexts.
Peripli culturali: Viaggiatori europei e incontri con l’alterità in età moderna e contemporanea, ed. Giulia Iannuzzi, Rome: Studi Storici Carocci, 2024 ISBN: 9788829022564, pp. 208, https://www.carocci.it/prodotto/peripli-culturali
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