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受到关注和公众利益的话题。然而，我们对接触的关键初始阶段的了解仍然不完整和不完整。拟议的项目将首次提供一个文本版本，以加强我们对那些难以捉摸的早年的了解。它将确立世界上这些具有重要战略意义的地区在建立随后的、通常是高度不对称的殖民和帝国关系之前，作为即兴‘接触地带’的重要性。该版本将由牛津大学出版社出版，作为理查德·哈克卢伊特的《英国国家(1598-1600)的主要航海、航海、旅行和发现》全集的第六卷。哈克卢伊特可以说是英国旅游写作历史上最重要的人物，以及他的主要导航，这是这类账户最重要的英文集合。第一次印刷于1589年，大大扩展了第二版(1598-1600)，大约1760,000字。当时在商船上推荐标准阅读，也对英国人的想象力产生了巨大的影响。长期以来，在全球扩张的关键时期，它在定义英国国家认同方面的作用得到了认可。它的一套关于中东和南亚的文本提供了一系列全面而引人入胜的材料，基本上没有经过审查。它们包含了一些关于盎格鲁-奥斯曼帝国贸易的最早文件，东印度公司的史前，并瞥见了早期英国人对这些国家的看法。它们的意义还在于这样一个事实，即英国人与旧世界这些地区的交易经常成为其他地方国际谈判的模板。尽管它有影响，但哈克卢伊特的藏品是一个被忽视的资源。它的一些文本表现得比其他文本要好。个别摘录分散在选集中(例如安德鲁·哈德菲尔德的《亚马逊人、野人和机智》，2001)，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)。然而，在主要导航中没有学术注释版本的中东和南亚材料可用。19世纪有两个完整的版本(罗伯特·哈丁·埃文斯的伍德福尔，1809-12年；戈德史密斯，1884-90年)。在20世纪又出现了两个版本(MacLehose&Sons，1903-5；由Everyman/Dent/duton，1907，Repr节略)。1927年)。按照目前的编辑标准，这些都不能令人满意；目前没有一本正在印刷中。该项目将出版第一本评论版的《主要航海》中关于前往中东和南亚的英语旅行的记述。它将汇集所有已知的关于文件的文化、历史和物质背景，并提供对地点、路线、当地居民、海洋术语和传记细节的完整注释。作为哈克卢伊特文本的标准图书馆版的一部分，这本书将成为哈克卢伊特学者、文化历史学家、地理学家、文学学者和世界各地的学生可获得的持久资源。该地区的焦点还将吸引对中东、南亚和后殖民研究感兴趣的学者，以及对探索和殖民史感兴趣的普通读者。更广泛地说，这项研究将增进我们对形成早期英语与这些地区互动的智力和实践网络的了解。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Hakluyt版的相关卷编辑目前正在建立的研究网络。最终目标是通过与一些公共机构的有计划的活动，促进对英语在更广泛的公共领域中与这些地区的接触的新理解。

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.