Author: Thomas Shaw
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Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Thomas Shaw
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Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Thomas Shaw
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Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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'Highly regarded by Edward Gibbon, Thomas Shaw, who travelled in North Africa, Egypt, the Sinai desert, Palestine and Syria in the 1720s, can in many respects be considered the precursor of later and enlightened writers on the Arab world such as the Russell brothers and Burckhardt. His aim to provide a "natural history", especially of Algeria, where he was appointed chaplain to the factory of English merchants in 1720 and where he spent thirteen years, the valuable information - botanical, zoological and topographical - which his travels contain, his habit of giving a number of toponyms in Arabic characters, the care he took to copy Roman inscriptions in North Africa and hieroglyphics in Egypt, and, finally, the exceptionally good plates and maps in his work, all entitled Shaw to a place among the most observant and reliable visitors to the east. Educated at Oxford, and, after his return to England, appointed Regius Professor of Greek at the university, Shaw also had a superior cultural background which emerges from the classical texts reproduced in the appendices. Yet not only was Shaw more interested in classical antiquity than contemporary Arab society, but he was far less sympathetic to the Arabs than many of his successors. Resenting "the jealous and insolent Behaviour of the Arabs, when they are Masters", he clearly preferred areas where they were as firmly dominated as possible by the Turks, and he certainly preferred North Africa (and above all Tunisia) to the Near East. Like Thévenot, however, he saw in most of the places he visited "a large Scene of Ruin and Desolation", despotism and ignorance'.'First published in 1738, the Travels bear a dedication to King George II with a reference to the generous patronage of Queen Caroline ... Like Thomas Fuller, Shaw dedicated each plate in his book to a different friend or patron. Later, it was translated into German, Dutch and French, and was studied with interest by the ideologists of the French invasion of Algeria' (Alastair Hamilton, Europe and the Arab World p. 120).

Author: Thomas Shaw
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Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Jan Loop
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004429328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Scholarship between Europe and the Levant is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Alastair Hamilton. His pioneering research into the history of European Oriental studies has deeply enhanced our understanding of the dynamics and processes of cultural and religious exchange between Christian Europe and the Islamic world. Written by students, friends and colleagues, the contributions in this volume pay tribute to Alastair Hamilton’s work and legacy. They discuss and celebrate intellectual, artistic and religious encounters between Europe and the cultural area stretching from Northern Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, and spanning the period from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. Contributors: Asaph Ben-Tov, Alexander Bevilacqua, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Charles Burnett, Ziad Elmarsafy, Mordechai Feingold, Aurélien Girard, Bernard Heyberger, Robert Irwin, Tarif Khalidi, J.M.I. Klaver, Noel Malcolm, Martin Mulsow, Francis Richard, G. J. Toomer, Arnoud Vrolijk, Nicholas Warner, Joanna Weinberg, and Jan Just Witkam.

Author: Tim Fulford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000559890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery.

Author: Richard W. Bevis
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773518001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Concentrating on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he traces its development up to 1878 and one of its earliest conscious articulations, Thomas Hardy's description of Egdon Heath in The Return of the Native."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Robert James Merrett
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228007976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and cultural practices was fuelled by migration and philosophical exchanges that reciprocally transmitted the values of urban geography, medicine, teaching, and the industrial and fine arts. In Imperial Paradoxes Robert Merrett compares British and French literature on those topics. He explains how food, wine, fashion, and tourism were channels of interdisciplinary relations and shows why authors in both nations turned the notion of empire from commercial and military expansion into a metaphor for exploring self-knowledge and pleasure. Although cognitive science has come to the fore only in the past two generations, eighteenth-century writers tested problems in the dualist and faculty psychology of Western rationalism. Themes of embodiment and embodied thought drawn from recent theorists are applied throughout this book, along with dialectics and models of the senses operating together. Imperial Paradoxes avoids the limitations of strict chronology, weaving together multiple narratives for a more complete picture. Applying major works in the fields of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and pedagogical theory to prose, poetry, and drama from the eighteenth century, Merrett shows how attention to eating, drinking, dressing, and travelling gives important insights into individual literary works and literary history.

Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004402837
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1025

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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Volume 13 (CMR 13) covering Western Europe in the period 1700-1800 is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and appraisals of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 13, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Karoline Cook, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Emma Gaze Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Radu Păun, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Ann Thomson, Carsten Walbiner.