Empire of the Senses : Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America.

Intro -- Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Making Sense of Colonial Encounters and New Worlds -- Part 1: Cultural Encounters -- 1 Touching on Communication: Visual and Textual Representations of Touch as Friendship in Early Colonial Encounters -- 2 Mission Soundscapes: Demons, Jesuits, and Sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya's Conquista Espiritual (1639) -- 3 Singing with Strangers in Early Seventeenth-Century New France -- Part 2: Colonial Subjectivity -- 4 The Pain of Senses Escaping: Eighteenth-Century Europeans and the Sensory Challenges of the Caribbean -- 5 Color Visions: Perceiving Nature in the Portuguese Atlantic World -- Part 3: Structures of Knowledge -- 6 Colonial Sensescapes: Thomas Harriot and the Production of Knowledge -- 7 Merian and the Pineapple: Visual Representation of the Senses -- 8 "Delightful a Fragrance": Native American Olfactory Aesthetics within the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Botanical Community -- Part 4:Colonial Projects -- 9 The Aromas of Flora's Wide Domains: Cultivating Gardens, Aromas, and Political Subjects in the Late Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic -- 10 Exploring Underwater Worlds: Diving in the Late Seventeenth-/Early Eighteenth-Century British Empire -- Index.

Empire of the Senses introduces new approaches to the history of European imperialism in the Americas by questioning the role that the five senses played in framing the cultural encounters, colonial knowledge, and political relationships that built New World empires.

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