Unfabling the East : the enlightenment's encounter with Asia / Jürgen Osterhammel ; translated by Robert Savage.
Osterhammel, Jürgen, author.; Savage, Robert (Translator), translator.
2018
DS33.4.E85 O7513 2018eb
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Title
Unfabling the East : the enlightenment's encounter with Asia / Jürgen Osterhammel ; translated by Robert Savage.
Author
Osterhammel, Jürgen, author.
Uniform Title
Die Entzauberung Asiens. English
ISBN
9781400889471 (electronic book)
1400889472 (electronic book)
9780691172729
0691172722
Published
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 676 pages)
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DS33.4.E85 O7513 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.3/8095
Note
Translated from the German.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Savage, Robert (Translator), translator.
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Unfabling the East.
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Preface
I. Introduction: Looking to the East
II. Asia and Europe: Borders, Hierarchies, Equilibria
III. Changing Perspectives
IV. Traveling
V. Encounters
VI. Eyewitnesses-Earwitnesses: Experiencing Asia Giants and Unicorns
VII. Reporting, Editing, Reading: From Lived Experience to Printed Text
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.

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