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Product Description: From the twelfth century, a growing sense of cultural confidence in the Latin West (at the same time that the central lands of Islam suffered from numerous waves of conquest and devastation) was accompanied by the increasing importance of the genre of empirical ethnographies...read more
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9780754659556 | Ashgate Pub Co, December 16, 2009, cover price $300.00 | About this edition: From the twelfth century, a growing sense of cultural confidence in the Latin West (at the same time that the central lands of Islam suffered from numerous waves of conquest and devastation) was accompanied by the increasing importance of the genre of empirical ethnographies.
Product Description: Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of curiosity and were the subject of a vast range of writings, much of them with an empirical basis, albeit often subtly fictionalized...read more
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9780754659365 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 30, 2007, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture.
This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspect of the cultural transformation of Europe throughout the Renaissance. Focusing on European travelers in India and their analysis of Hindu society, politics and religion, it also offers a detailed and systematic study of the variety of travel narratives describing South India from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In addition, the book proposes a novel approach to the study of European attitudes toward non-Europeans. (view table of contents)
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9780521770552 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $149.99 | About this edition: This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspect of the cultural transformation of Europe throughout the Renaissance.
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9780521526135 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $69.99
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9781861890207 | Reaktion Books, February 1, 1999, cover price $24.95
9780060422806, titled "Historical Viewpoints: Notable Articles from American Heritage, to 1877" | 6th edition (Harpercollins College Div, November 1, 1990), cover price $26.66 | also contains Historical Viewpoints: Notable Articles from American Heritage, to 1877
Product Description: Cultures shift by absorbing outside influences and dealing creativeley with them. In the age of European expansion the Europeans gradually changed their view of the world. Missionaries propagated their religion and had to learn how to approach those whom they wanted to convert...read more
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9783825826147 | Lit Verlag, August 1, 1997, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Cultures shift by absorbing outside influences and dealing creativeley with them.
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