Main entry:

Stagl, Justin.

Title & Author:

A history of curiosity : the theory of travel, 1550-1800 / Justin Stagl.

Publication:

Chur, Switzerland : Harwood Academic Publishers, ©1995.

Description:

viii, 344 pages : illustrations, portraits.

Series:

Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 13

Notes:
The methodizing of travel in the sixteenth century : a tale of three cities -- Rerum memoria : early modern enquiries and documentation centres -- Imagines mundi : allegories of the continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment -- The man who called himself George Psalmanazar, or, The problems of the authenticity of ethnographic description -- Josephinism and social research : the "patriotic traveller" of Count Leopold Berchtold -- August Ludwig Schlözer and the study of mankind according to peoples -- From the private to the sponsored traveller : Volney's reform of travel instruction and the French Revolution.

ISBN:

3718653427
9783718653423
3718656213 (pbk.)
9783718656219 (pbk.)

Subject:

Travel.
Voyages and travels.
Social history.
Travel history
Social Conditions
Voyage.
Voyages.
Histoire sociale.
travel.
journeys.
social history.
Viagens e exploracoes.
Anthropologie Europe Histoire 1500-1800.
Histoire.
Re?cits de voyages europe?ens 1500-1800 Histoire et critique.
Voyageurs europe?ens 1500-1800.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Studies in anthropology and history ; v. 13.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86874
Call No.: ID GN33.S7; ID:95-B4097
Status: Available