Empire of the Senses

Daniela Hacke, Ph. D (1998), Cambridge University, is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the Free University of Berlin. She has published monographs, translations and many articles on European Gender and Cultural History and is currently researching a History of the Senses in Venice.Paul Musselwhite, Ph.D. (2011), The College of William and Mary, is Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College. He researches and publishes on early British America and the development of plantation society.

“This volume edited by Hacke and Musselwhite presents substantial, thought-provoking research in the blooming field of sensory history of the Americas, allowing for a deeper understanding of early modern European association of specific sensory regimes with imperial authority.”Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, University of Zurich. In: Emotions, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2018), pp. 347-349.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Making Sense of Colonial Encounters and New Worlds Daniela Hacke and Paul MusselwhitePart 1: Cultural Encounters1 Touching on Communication: Visual and Textual Representations of Touch as Friendship in Early Colonial EncountersCéline Carayon2 Mission Soundscapes: Demons, Jesuits, and Sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya’s Conquista Espiritual (1639)Jutta Toelle3 Singing with Strangers in Early Seventeenth-century New FranceMichaela Ann CameronPart 2: Colonial Subjectivity4 The Pain of Senses Escaping: Eighteenth-century Europeans and the Sensory Challenges of the CaribbeanAnnika Raapke5 Color Visions: Perceiving Nature in the Portuguese Atlantic WorldMarília dos Santos LopesPart 3: Structures of Knowledge6 Colonial Sensescapes: Thomas Harriot and the Production of KnowledgeDaniela Hacke7 Merian and the Pineapple: Visual Representation of the SensesMegan Baumhammer and Claire Kennedy8 “Delightful a Fragrance”: Native American Olfactory Aesthetics Within the Eighteenth-century Anglo-American Botanical CommunityAndrew KettlerPart 4: Colonial Projects9 The Aromas of Flora’s Wide Domains: Cultivating Gardens, Aromas, and Political Subjects in the Late Seventeenth-century English AtlanticKate Mulry10 Exploring Underwater Worlds: Diving in the Late Seventeenth-/Early Eighteenth-century British EmpireRebekka von MallinckrodtIndex