Empire of the senses sensory practices of colonialism in early America / edited by Daniela Hacke, Paul Musselwhite.
| Other author | Hacke, Daniela. |
| Other author | Musselwhite, Paul. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American history series: the American colonies, 1500-1830 ; Volume 8 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Empire of the senses Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004340633 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017049623 |
| ISBN | 9789004340640 (E-book) |