Author: Thomas ThorntonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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The Present State of Turkey; Or a Description of the Political, Civil, and Religious, Constitution, Govermment, and Laws of the Ottoman Empire; (etc.) 2. Ed
Author: Thomas ThorntonThe Present State of Turkey, Or a Description of the Political Civil and Religious Constitution Governmentand Laws of the Ottoman Empire, 2
Author: Thomas ThrontonThe Present State of Turkey; Or, A Description of the Political, Civil, and Religious Constitution, Government, and Laws, of the Ottoman Empire ;
Author: Thomas ThorntonPublisher:
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Category : Turkey
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Present State of Turkey
Author: Thomas ThorntonPublisher:
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Category : Turkey
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Plutarch's Lives, tr. by J. and W. Langhorne
Author: PlutarchusA Catalogue of Books
Author: John Ramsay McCullochPublisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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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.
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