This series
presents studies of the early modern contacts and exchanges among
the states, polities and entrepreneurial organizations of Europe;
Asia, including the Levant and East India/Indies; Africa; and the
Americas. Books investigate travelers, merchants and cultural
inventors, including explorers, mapmakers, artists and writers, as
they operated in political, mercantile, sexual and linguistic
economies. We encourage authors to reflect on their own
methodologies in relation to issues and theories relevant to the
study of transculturism/translation and transnationalism. We are
particularly interested in work on and from the perspective of the
Asians, Africans, and Americans involved in these interactions, and
on such topics as:
- Material exchanges, including textiles, paper and printing, and
technologies of knowledge
- Movements of bodies: embassies, voyagers, piracy,
enslavement
- Travel writing: its purposes, practices, forms and effects on
writing in other genres
- Belief systems: religions, philosophies, sciences
- Translations: verbal, artistic, philosophical
- Forms of transnational violence and its representations.
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