Transport Revolution and Travels to Asia, 1860s-1920s (Routledge Research in Travel Writing) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 103272336X ISBN 13: 9781032723365

Verlag: Routledge, 2025

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This volume seeks to discuss the influence of new modes of transportation and their coexistence with older ones by incorporating a comprehensive range of sources written by both European and Asian travellers. It is inspired by the anthropology of the senses, the sociology of travel, post-colonial theory, and the cultural history of transport

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Tomasz Ewertowski, PhD, is a lecturer at the Shanghai International Studies University, China. He graduated from and worked as a researcher at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. His research interests include travel writing studies, imagology, and comparative literature. He has served as a principal investigator on two Polish National Science Centre grants. His publications include a monograph, Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (2020) and articles in journals like Studies in Travel Writing, Mobilities, Indonesia and the Malay World.

Wacław Forajter is an Associate Professor at University of Silesia in Katowice. He is the author of five academic books, including Kolonizator skolonizowany. Przypadek Sygurda Wiśniowskiego (Colonized colonizer. Sygurd Wiśniowski’s case; University of Silesia 2014); Dyslokacja. Studia o literaturze i innych dyskursach XIX wieku (Dislocations. Studies in literature and other discourses of the 19th century; University of Silesia 2022) and several dozen articles in Polish scientific periodicals. He also translated from French a philosophical monograph Esthétique de la photographie of François Soulages and the essays of Paul Valéry and Jean-Luc Nancy. His research interest focus on 19th-century history, theory of literature, anthropology of culture, and postcolonial theory.

Oliwia Gromadzka, PhD, is a student at the Doctoral School of Humanities at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in the field of History. She works on issues of European colonialism, the history of intercultural contacts, space studies, and postcolonial discourse.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 103272336X
• ISBN 13: 9781032723365
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258
• Herausgeber: Ewertowski Tomasz, Forajter Wacław, Gromadzka Oliwia
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