An edition of Levant Travels, South Asia, and Anglo-Ottoman Diplomacy in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations (1598-1600)

英国与中东和南亚的关系是一个长期关注和公众利益的问题。然而，我们对接触的关键初始阶段的了解仍然是不完整的。拟议的项目将首次提供一个版本的文本，可以加强我们对那些难以捉摸的早年的理解。这本书将确立这些具有重要战略意义的地区作为即兴“接触区”的重要性，然后才建立起随后的、往往是高度不对称的殖民地和帝国关系。该版本将由牛津大学出版社出版，作为理查德·哈克卢伊特《英国民族的主要航行、航行、交通和发现》（1598-1600）完整版的第6卷。哈克卢伊特可以说是英国游记写作史上最重要的人物，他的《主要航行》是此类记述的最重要的英文合集。第一次印刷于1589年，第二版（1598-1600）大幅扩充，约有1，760，000字。标准推荐阅读在当时的商船上，它也对英语的想象力产生了巨大的影响。长期以来，它一直被认为是在全球扩张的关键时期定义英国民族身份的角色。它关于中东和南亚的一套文本提供了一个全面和迷人的基本上未经审查的材料范围。其中包括一些关于盎格鲁-奥斯曼贸易的最早文献，东印度公司的史前史，以及早期英国人对这些国家的看法。它们的重要性还在于这样一个事实，即英国与“旧世界”这些地区的交往往往形成了其他地方国际谈判的模板。尽管有其影响，但哈克卢伊特的收藏是一个被忽视的资源。它的一些文本比其他文本表现得更好。个别摘录出现分散在选集（例如安德鲁哈德菲尔德的亚马逊人，野蛮人和马基雅维利，2001年），特别是美国的航行引起了可以理解的关注（例如彼得曼考尔的哈克卢伊特的承诺，2007年）。然而，在《主要航行》中没有关于中东和南亚材料的学术注释版本。有两个19世纪世纪完整的版本（罗伯特哈丁埃文斯，1809年至1812年伍德福尔; Goldsmid，1884年至1890年）。20世纪又出现了两个版本（MacLehose & Sons，1903-5;由Everyman/Dent/达顿，1907年删节，1927年再版）。按照目前的编辑标准，没有一本是令人满意的;目前没有一本正在印刷。这个项目将产生第一个关键版的帐户，英语旅行到中东和南亚的主要导航。它将汇集所有已知的关于文件的文化、历史和物质背景的资料，并提供地点、路线、当地居民、海洋术语和传记细节的全面注释。作为Hakluyt文本的标准图书馆版本的一部分，该卷将成为Hakluyt学者，文化历史学家，地理学家，文学学者和世界各地的学生的持久，可访问的资源。区域重点也将吸引对中东，南亚和后殖民研究感兴趣的学者，以及对探索和殖民历史感兴趣的普通读者。更广泛地说，这项研究将增强我们对塑造早期英语与这些地区互动的知识和实践网络的了解。另一个目的是鼓励对这一时期欧洲和非欧洲文化之间的信息流动进行新的研究。这将有助于一个研究网络目前正在建立的相关卷编辑的Hakluyt版。最后一个目标是通过与一些公共机构的计划活动，在更广泛的公共领域激发对英语与这些地区接触的新理解。

Britain's relationship with the Middle East and South Asia is a subject of long-standing scrutiny and public interest. Yet our knowledge of the crucial initial phases of contact remains patchy and incomplete. The proposed project will make available for the first time an edition of texts that can enhance our understanding of those elusive early years. It will establish the importance of these strategically significant parts of the world as improvisational 'contact zones', before the establishment of subsequent, often highly asymmetrical, colonial and imperial relationships.The edition will be published by Oxford University Press as volume 6 of the complete edition of Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1598-1600). Hakluyt is arguably the single most important figure in the history of English travel writing, and his Principal Navigations, the most important English collection of such accounts. First printed in 1589, the hugely expanded second edition (1598-1600) runs to approximately 1,760,000 words. Standard recommended reading onboard trading ships at the time, it also exerted enormous influence on the English imagination. It has long been recognised for its role in defining English national identity at a crucial period of global expansion. Its set of texts on the Middle East and South Asia offer a comprehensive and fascinating range of largely unexamined material. They contain some of the earliest documents about Anglo-Ottoman trade, the pre-history of the East India Company, and glimpses into early English perception of these nations. Their significance lies also in the fact that English dealings with these parts of the 'Old World' often formed the template for international negotiations elsewhere.Despite its impact, Hakluyt's collection is a much overlooked resource. Some of its texts have fared better than others. Individual extracts appear scattered in anthologies (e.g. Andrew Hadfield's Amazons, Savages and Machiavels, 2001), and the American voyages in particular have attracted understandable attention (e.g. Peter Mancall's Hakluyt's Promise, 2007). However, no scholarly annotated editions of the Middle Eastern and South Asian material in The Principal Navigations are available. There are two 19th century complete editions (Woodfall for Robert Harding Evans, 1809-12; Goldsmid, 1884-90). Two more versions appeared in the 20th century (MacLehose & Sons, 1903-5; abridged by Everyman/Dent/Dutton, 1907, repr. 1927). None of these is satisfactory by current standards of editing; none is currently in print. This project will produce the first critical edition of the accounts of English travels to the Middle East and South Asia in the Principal Navigations. It will bring together all that is known about the documents' cultural, historical and material contexts, and provide full annotation of places, routes, local inhabitants, maritime terminology and biographical details. As part of the standard library edition of Hakluyt's text, the volume will be a lasting, accessible resource for Hakluyt scholars, cultural historians, geographers, literary scholars and students world-wide. The regional focus will also attract scholars interested in Middle Eastern, South Asian and postcolonial studies, as well as general readers interested in exploration and colonial history. More broadly, this research will enhance our knowledge of the intellectual and practical networks that shaped early English interaction with these regions. A further aim is to encourage new research into the movement of information among European and non-European cultures in the period. This will contribute to a research network currently being established by relevant volume editors of the Hakluyt edition. A final aim is to stimulate new understanding of English engagement with these regions in the wider public domain, through planned activities with a number of public institutions.