Format:
Online-Ressource (511 p.)
ISBN:
9780226467320
Content:
Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Chapter VII: Southeast Asia; Chapter VIII: Japan; Chapter IX: China; Chapter X: Epilogue: A Composite Picture; General Bibliography; Chapter Bibliographies; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226467092
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226467320
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I : The Century of Discovery. Book 2
Language:
English
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