James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford. Despina Magkanari is Research Associate at IZEA (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung) -Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg. Her main research interests lie in the transnational history of Oriental studies, the history of Turkology, and the history of Area Studies. Alicia C. Montoya is Professor of French Literature at Radboud University (Netherlands). She was PI on the European Research Council-funded MEDIATE project and currently heads the Dutch Research Council-funded project 'Civic Fictions: Modelling book-reader interactions in the Age of Revolution'. James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford.

• 1. Introduction - James RavenPart One: Knowledge and Reception2. Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver's Museum - Richard Coulton3. 'Useful' Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment - Alexandra Ortolja-Baird 4. Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History - James Raven5. The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China - Trude Dijkstra6. An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library - Sean MoorePart Two: Images and News7. Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England - Isabelle Baudino8. From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the Late Eighteenth Century - Jean-François Dunyach9. The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles - Francesco A. Morriello10. Newspapers and Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean - Cristina SorianoPart Three: Multiple Diffusions 11. Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions - Despina Magkanari 12. The Diffusion of the Qur'an in Private Enlightenment Libraries - Alicia C. Montoya13. The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar- Graham Shaw14. Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China - Cynthia BrokawConclusion - James RavenSelect BibliographyIndex

James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford. Despina Magkanari is Research Associate at IZEA (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung) -Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg. Her main research interests lie in the transnational history of Oriental studies, the history of Turkology, and the history of Area Studies. Alicia C. Montoya is Professor of French Literature at Radboud University (Netherlands). She was PI on the European Research Council-funded MEDIATE project and currently heads the Dutch Research Council-funded project 'Civic Fictions: Modelling book-reader interactions in the Age of Revolution'. James Raven is a Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Historical Society. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex, and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Social and Cultural History, University of Oxford.

• 1. Introduction - James RavenPart One: Knowledge and Reception2. Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver's Museum - Richard Coulton3. 'Useful' Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment - Alexandra Ortolja-Baird 4. Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global Reception of a Norwegian History - James Raven5. The Lettres chinoises and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China - Trude Dijkstra6. An American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem Social Library - Sean MoorePart Two: Images and News7. Travelling Images: Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of England - Isabelle Baudino8. From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs across the Channel in the Late Eighteenth Century - Jean-François Dunyach9. The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles - Francesco A. Morriello10. Newspapers and Atlantic Revolutions: The Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean - Cristina SorianoPart Three: Multiple Diffusions 11. Cross-Cultural Circulations and Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale and its Editions - Despina Magkanari 12. The Diffusion of the Qur'an in Private Enlightenment Libraries - Alicia C. Montoya13. The Unexpected Dynamics of Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar- Graham Shaw14. Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in Early Nineteenth-Century China - Cynthia BrokawConclusion - James RavenSelect BibliographyIndex