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"Oriental Networks 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, Oriental Networks 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. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press"--

Globalization --- Civilization, Modern --- East and West --- History --- literature, literary criticism, art, art history, architecture, landscape design, philosophy, religion, Christianity, Islam, history of science, natural history, botany, diplomacy, Network, networks, networking, network studies, globalization, intercultural exchanges, transculturation, eighteenth-century, Orient, Occident, orientalism, East-West relations, Eastern hemisphere, Western hemisphere, culture, commerce, communication, Britain, England, Europe, Levant, Barbary Coast, Asia, East Asia, South Asia, China, India, Cape Colony, Chile, Brazil, colonialism, post-colonialism.

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Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods. Through studies of landscape gardens, architecture, imaginary voyages, transcontinental philosophical exchange, and cosmological poetry, Hemispheres and Stratospheres unfurls the early history of a distance culture that influences our own era of global information exchange, long-haul flights, colossal skyscrapers, and space tourism. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Enlightenment. --- Geographical perception in literature. --- Geography in art. --- Arts, Modern --- Literature, Modern --- History. --- History and criticism. --- distance, space, extension, travel, communication, collaboration, exchange, landscape, garden, astronomy, voyage, science, library, India, Italy, England, Britain, Europe, History of science, literature, philosophy, theology, art, architecture, literary criticism, aviation. --- Modern arts --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism

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