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1 online resource (xiii, 676 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I. Introduction: Looking to the East; Asia's "Decline"-Europe's Arrogance; The Great Map of Mankind; The Power of Discourse, the Burden of Learning; Sensing and Constructing Difference; Spaces; Epochs; PATHWAYS OF KNOWLEDGE; II. Asia and Europe: Borders, Hierarchies, Equilibria; Asia and Europe in the Tsarist Empire; The Ottoman Empire: European Great Power or Barbarian at the Gates?; Asia: The Preeminent Continent?; Character and Encyclopedia; European Primacy and Provincialism; III. Changing Perspectives; Cultural Transfer and Colonialism |
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Theories of Ethnocentrism; Competition and Comparison; Discursive Justice; Chinese Interviews, Indian Letters; Niebuhr's Monkey; IV. Traveling; Sir John Malcolm's Dinner Party; A Weeping Mandarin; Sea and Land; East Asia: Walled Empires; South Asia and Southeast Asia: Porous Borders; The Near East: A Pilgrimage to Antiquity; Adventurers and Renegades; Scholars and Administrators; V. Encounters; Ordeals, Disappointments, Catastrophes; The Mysterious Mister Manning; Interpreters and Dialogues; Language Barriers; Mimesis and Deception; A Sociology of Perception |
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VI. Eyewitnesses-Earwitnesses: Experiencing Asia; Giants and Unicorns; Prejudices and Preconceptions; Autopsy; Before the Tribunal of Philosophy; Methods of the Inquisitive Class; Hearing and Hearsay; Local Knowledge: Asiatic Scholarship in European Texts; VII. Reporting, Editing, Reading: From Lived Experience to Printed Text; The Travel Account as a Tool of Inquiry; Style and Truth; Anthologies, Collages, Mega-Narratives; The Task of the Translator; Topicality and Canonicity; Traces of Reading; Arts of Reading; Fractured Representation; THE PRESENT AND THE PAST |
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VIII. The Raw Forces of History: Apocalyptic Horsemen, Conquerors, Usurpers; Tribal Asia: Attila and the Consequences; A Continent of Revolutions; Timur: Statesman and Monster; Nadir Shah: Comet of War and Patriot; Haidar Ali: Tyrant and Enlightened Reformer; The Modernization of Political Vulcanism; IX. Savages and Barbarians; Lost Savages; Four Types of Barbarism; The Roof of the World; "Tartary" in Geography, the Philosophy of History, and Ethnography; Knights and Strangers in the Crimea; The Ethnology and Politics of Arabic Liberty; Theories of Nomadism; Triumph of the Settlers |
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X. Real and Unreal Despots; The Heirs of Nero and Solomon; Montesquieu Reads Sir John Chardin; Despotism and the Philosophy of History; "Oriental Despotism" under Suspicion; Anquetil-Duperron: The Despot's New Clothes; India: Translatio Despotica; Despotism with Chinese Characteristics; The Ottoman Empire: Praetorian Guards and Paper Tigers; Ex Occidente Lux; XI. Societies; Solidarity among the Civilized; Cities; Batavia's Colonial Sociology; Close-Up: Urban Life in Syrian Aleppo; Slaves; Scholars and Aesthetes in Power; Castes: Religious Straitjacket or Social Utopia?; Feudalism |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 13, 2018) |
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Public opinion -- Europe
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Civilization -- Public opinion.
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International relations.
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Public opinion.
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Public opinion, European.
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Travel.
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Asia -- Foreign public opinion, European
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Asia -- Civilization -- Public opinion
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Asia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008613
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Asia -- Relations -- Europe
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Europe -- Relations -- Asia
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Asia.
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Europe.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Savage, Robert (Robert Ian), translator
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| ISBN |
9781400889471 |
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1400889472 |
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