Author: Jacques IvanoffPublisher: White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A Journey Through the Mergui Archipelago
Author: Jacques IvanoffPublisher: White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Notes of a Journey Across the Isthmus of Krà
Author: Alfred John LoftusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kra Expedition, 1883
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Unfabling the East
Author: Jürgen OsterhammelPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691196478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. Here is the acclaimed book that challenges the notion that Europe's formative engagement with the non-European world was invariably marred by an imperial gaze and presumptions of Western superiority. Osterhammel shows how major figures such as Leibniz, Voltaire, Gibbon, and Hegel took a keen interest in Asian culture and history, and introduces lesser-known scientific travelers, colonial administrators, Jesuit missionaries, and adventurers who returned home from Asia bearing manuscripts in many exotic languages, huge collections of ethnographic data, and stories that sometimes defied belief. Osterhammel brings the sights and sounds of this tumultuous age vividly to life, from the salons of Paris and the lecture halls of Edinburgh to the deserts of Arabia, the steppes of Siberia, and the sumptuous courts of Asian princes. He demonstrates how Europe discovered its own identity anew by measuring itself against its more senior continent, and how it was only toward the end of this period that cruder forms of Eurocentrism--and condescension toward Asia--prevailed.
A Supplement of the Catalogue of the Late John Duke of Roxburghe
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biblioteques privades
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John, Duke of Roxburghe
Author: John Ker Duke of RoxburghePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John, Duke of Roxburghe
Author: Robert Harding EvansPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110806583X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Reissued here together, the 1812 sale catalogue and supplement for a significant bibliographical auction, with handwritten price and purchaser annotations.
Bookseller's catalogues
Author: Richard PriestleyA Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The general library
Author: London Institution. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John
Author: John Ker Duke of RoxburghePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Catalogues of books offered for sale at the bookshop of John Todd, afterwards John and George Todd. 1798
Author: John TODD (Bookseller, of York, the Elder.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description