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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction: Pluralising The Enlightenment: Improvement And Cross-Cultural Encounters
- Chapter One Improvement of Knowledge: John Carmichael’s A Journey From Aleppo to Busserah, Over the Desert (1772)
- Chapter Two Polite Englishman in the East: Edward Ives’s Journey from Persia to England (1773)
- Chapter Three Commerce, Virtue and Improvement: Abraham Parsons’s Travel in Asia and Africa (1808)
- Chapter Four Henry Abbott: A Cosmopolitan in Cities and Deserts
- Chapter Five Eyles Irwin’s Travels: The Politics of Adventure in the Levant
- Chapter Six Political and Moral Improvement: Donald Campbell, A Journey Overland to India Partly by A Route Never Gone Before by Any European (1795)
- Conclusion
- Unpublished Manuscripts
- Reference List
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction: Pluralising The Enlightenment: Improvement And Cross-Cultural Encounters
- Chapter One Improvement of Knowledge: John Carmichael’s A Journey From Aleppo to Busserah, Over the Desert (1772)
- Chapter Two Polite Englishman in the East: Edward Ives’s Journey from Persia to England (1773)
- Chapter Three Commerce, Virtue and Improvement: Abraham Parsons’s Travel in Asia and Africa (1808)
- Chapter Four Henry Abbott: A Cosmopolitan in Cities and Deserts
- Chapter Five Eyles Irwin’s Travels: The Politics of Adventure in the Levant
- Chapter Six Political and Moral Improvement: Donald Campbell, A Journey Overland to India Partly by A Route Never Gone Before by Any European (1795)
- Conclusion
- Unpublished Manuscripts
- Reference List
- Index
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- British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751-1795Rethinking Enlightenment Improvement, pp. 257 - 264Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2023