A world made by travel : the digital Grand Tour / Giovanna Ceserani

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Computerdatei (Online)Computer file (Online)Language: English Publisher: [Stanford, California] : Stanford University Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource : color illustrationsContained works:
  • Ceserani, Giovanna, 1970-. Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DG424
Online resources: Summary: "In the eighteenth century, tens of thousands of travelers journeyed to Italy on the Grand Tour. These travels in the age of Enlightenment contributed to a massive reimagining of politics and the arts, of the market for culture, and of ideas about education and leisure. A World Made by Travel combines --in dynamic format-- original research with data and visualizations about the lives and journeys of 6,007 travelers. It reveals the diverse experiences, elite and otherwise, that collectively constituted the eighteenth-century Grand Tour. This digital publication transforms the foundational Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 (compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive by John Ingamells) into an interactive and data-rich interface. It introduces more than a thousand new figures, including hundreds of women, servants, workers, and Italians not previously represented among the Dictionary's primary headings. This digital Grand Tour is more inclusive, and it addresses and invites vital questions about a historical phenomenon that has long been studied with a focus on the most elite and well-known of travelers. A World Made by Travel is framed by introductory chapters explaining its digital approach, contains exemplary essays by leading scholars who worked with its data, and offers resources designed to help teachers bring this wealth of new material into the classroom. At its core is the Grand Tour Explorer, a groundbreaking interactive database containing raw downloadable data, visualizations, and documentation. This digital Grand Tour argues for the historical and continuing significance of eighteenth-century travel to Italy by showing it in a new light and with unprecedented granularity. By opening up pressing questions of scale and representation, it models how digital approaches that involve shareable data can facilitate original research and generate new knowledge about the past "PPN: PPN: 1916248551Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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