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"With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The voyages and collections rediscovered here do not move from a European center to a distant periphery, nor do they position European authorities as the central agents of this early era of globalization. Long distance voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman Empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends. The dynamic contact zones of these curious encounters include the ice floes of the Arctic, the sociable spaces of the tea table, the hybrid material texts and objects in imperial archives, and the collections belonging to key figures of the Enlightenment, including Sir Hans Sloane and James Petiver."--

Civilization, Modern --- Civilization, Western --- Eighteenth century --- collecting. --- eighteenth-century. --- empire. --- exploration. --- history of science. --- history. --- indigenous encounters. --- travel. --- writing.

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Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.

Enlightenment. --- France --- Intellectual life. --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Mesmer, Franz-Anton --- Enlightenment --- Mesmerism --- Intellectual life --- Alternative medicine --- Subconsciousness --- Animal magnetism --- Hypnotism --- Magnetic healing --- Therapeutics, Suggestive

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Comparisons not only prove fundamental in the epistemological foundation of modernity (Foucault, Luhmann), but they fulfil a central function in social life and the production of art. Taking a cue from the Practice Turn in sociology, the contributors are investigating the role of comparative practices in the formation of eighteenth-century literature and culture. The book conceives of social practices of comparing as being entrenched in networks of circulation of bodies, artefacts, discourses and ideas, and aims to investigate how such practices ordered and changed British literature and culture during the long eighteenth century.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Britain. --- British Studies. --- Cultural History. --- Culture. --- Eighteenth-Century. --- Literary Studies. --- Novel. --- British literature. --- English language --- Comparison (Grammar) --- Comparison. --- Germanic languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Comparison --- Literature --- Culture --- Britain --- Novel --- Eighteenth-Century --- Cultural History --- British Studies --- Literary Studies --- English literature --- British literature --- English literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1700-1799

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"The Physiocrats believed that wealth came exclusively from the land, that nature was fecund and man could harness its reproductive forces. Capital investments in agriculture and hard work would create profits that circulated to other sectors and supported all social institutions. Physiocracy, which originated in late eighteenth-century France, is therefore widely considered a forerunner of modern economic theory. The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment places the Physiocrats in context by inscribing economic theory within broader Enlightenment culture. Liana Vardi discusses three theorists - Francois Quesnay; Victor Riquetti, marquis de Mirabeau; and Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours - and shows how their understanding of mental processes, science, politics, and the arts influenced their individual approach to economic writing. The difficulty in explaining the doctrine, combined with the expectation that the public would be persuaded by its arguments, mired physiocracy in endless contradictions. This work offers a framework for understanding physiocratic theory and its complicated relation to modern economics"--

Physiocrats. --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- Economic schools --- Economics --- Enlightenment --- Physiocrats --- Bodenreform --- Economists --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Economics. --- Enlightenment. --- E-books --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Mouvement des lumières --- Physiocrates

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Aims to show that Adam Smith (1723-90), the author of "The Wealth of Nations", was not the promoter of ruthless laissez-faire capitalism that is frequently depicted. Smith's "right-wing" reputation was sealed after his death when it was not safe to claim that an author may have influenced the French revolutionaries.

Economic schools --- Smith, Adam --- Smith, Adam,-- 1723-1790-- Influence. --- Business. --- Economics --- Enlightenment --- Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Philosophy --- Smith, Adam, --- Influence. --- -Enlightenment --- -330.153092 --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Smit, Adam, --- Yadang Simi, --- Ya-tang Ssu-mi, --- 亚当・斯密, --- Simi, Yadang, --- Ssu-mi, Ya-tang, --- 斯密亚当, --- סמית, אדם, --- スミスアダムス, --- Philosophy.