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Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World (Paperback)
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Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
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This edited collection examines the meeting points between travel,
mobility, and conflict to uncover the experience of travel -
whether real or imagined - in the early modern world. Until
relatively recently, both domestic travel and voyages to the wider
world remained dangerous undertakings. Physical travel, whether
initiated by religious conversion and pilgrimage, diplomacy, trade,
war, or the desire to encounter other cultures, inevitably heralded
disruption: contact zones witnessed cultural encounters that were
not always cordial, despite the knowledge acquisition and financial
gain that could be reaped from travel. Vast compendia of travel
such as Hakluyt's Principla Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries,
printed from the late sixteenth century, and Prevost's Histoire
Generale des Voyages (1746-1759) underscored European exploration
as a marker of European progress, and in so doing showed the
tensions that can arise as a consequence of interaction with other
cultures. In focusing upon language acquisition and translation,
travel and religion, travel and politics, and imaginary travel, the
essays in this collection tease out the ways in which travel was
both obstructed and enriched by conflict.
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