Global Exchanges of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century: Ideas and Materialities c. 1650-1850

A pioneering exploration of how differences in material textual forms conveyed and altered ideas in diverse but connected parts of the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.

Technological advances during the long eighteenth century brought new and exciting intellectual exchange between peoples in different parts of the world. Mutual unfamiliarity with textual forms — those sent to as well as received from Europe — also made knowledge transfer unpredictabl...