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Routledge
The author's grasp of the vast, often obscure, but highly interesting body of literature which emerged in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries commands the attention of a wide readership outside purely academic boundaries. Stagl weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasizing links between the figures, the philosophies and the literature of early modern times; links which have... Read more
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
Biography
Justin Stagl
"...Stagl's explorations of late eighteenth-century debates over the nature of World History are also enlightening, as they reveal the origins of Volkskunde and ethnologie - categories that were to dominate travel and scholarship for the next two centries to the present." -- The Voltaire Foundation of University of Oxford, John P. Mitchell, Queens College, Cambridge
"This strikingly original, painstakingly researched...book exhibits all the virtues and a few of the weaknesses of long-sustained maverick devotion. Though not exclusively focused upon travel, it will remain a pillar of scholarship in travel history...For anyone interested in the history of travel cultures this book - with its rich references to primary manuscript sources and German historical scholarship not available in English - will prove indispensable." -- Judith Adler of Department of Sociology, Memorial University of New Foundland, Canada
