Travel Knowledge - European 'Discoveries' in the Early Modern Period

Informationen zum Autor Ivo Kamps is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. Jyotsna Singh is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University. Klappentext Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800! with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies! Africa! and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism! the other! and the nation! but this is one of the first volumes on European travel in the early modern period. The essays further distinguish themselves by focusing not on the European discovery of the Americas! but on voyages to the east! and by allowing the voices of marginalized travelers to speak through history. This collection includes both critical essays and the primary texts to which they refer! a unique pairing. Travel Knowledge is essential reading in history! literature! and ethnography. Zusammenfassung Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism, the other, and the nation, but this is one of the first volumes on European travel in the early modern period. The essays further distinguish themselves by focusing not on the European discovery of the Americas, but on voyages to the east, and by allowing the voices of marginalized travelers to speak through history. This collection includes both critical essays and the primary texts to which they refer, a unique pairing. Travel Knowledge is essential reading in history, literature, and ethnography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kamps, I Kamps, I. Kamps, Ivo Kamps, Ivo Singh Kamps, J Singh, J. Singh, Jyotsna G. Singh
• Mitarbeit: I. Kamps (Herausgeber), Ivo Kamps (Herausgeber), J. Singh (Herausgeber), Jyotsna Singh (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9780312222703
• ISBN: 978-0-312-22270-3
• Seiten: 285
• Serie: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Allgemeines, Lexika; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung; B, Gender Studies, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Gender and Education, Gender identity in education, early modern period;Europe;knowledge