Unfabling the East : : The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia /

Unfabling the East : : The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia / / Jürgen Osterhammel.

How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring 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, J...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Osterhammel, Jürgen,
TeilnehmendeR:
Savage, Robert.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (696 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. introduction: Looking to the East
  • PATHWAYS OF KNOWLEDGE
  • II. Asia and Europe: Borders, Hierarchies, Equilibria
  • III. Changing Perspectives
  • IV. Traveling
  • V. Encounters
  • VI. Eyewitnesses-Earwitnesses: Experiencing Asia
  • VII. Reporting, Editing, Reading: From Lived Experience to Printed Text
  • THE PRESENT AND THE PAST
  • VIII. The Raw Forces of History. Apocalyptic Horsemen, Conquerors, Usurpers
  • IX. Savages and Barbarians
  • X. Real and Unreal Despots
  • XI. Societies
  • XII. Women
  • XIII. Into a New Age: The Rise of Eurocentrism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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