Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making sense of colonial encounters and new worlds / Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite -- Part I. Cultural encounters -- Touching on communication: visual and textual representations of touch as friendship in early colonial encounters / Celine Carayon -- Mission soundscapes: demons, Jesuits, and sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya's Conquista espiritual (1639) / Jutta Toelle -- Singing with strangers in early seventeenth-century New France / Michaela Ann Cameron -- Part II. Colonial subjectivity -- The pain of senses escaping: eighteenth-century Europeans and the sensory challenges of the Caribbean / Annika Raapke -- Color visions: perceiving nature in the Portuguese Atlantic world / Marilia dos Santos Lopes -- Part III. Structures of knowledge -- Colonial sensescapes: Thomas Harriot and the production of knowledge / Daniela Hacke -- Merian and the pineapple: visual representation of the senses / Megan Baumhammer and Claire Kennedy -- "Delightful a fragrance": native American olfactory aesthetics within the eighteenth-century Anglo-American botanical community / Andrew Kettler -- Part IV. Colonial projects -- The aromas of flora's wide domains: cultivating gardens, aromas, and political subjects in the late seventeenth-century English Atlantic / Kate Mulry -- Exploring underwater worlds: diving in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth-century British empire / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt.

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