Asia in the Making of Europe

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance.In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.

Summary

Part of Volume III of a series which traces European encounters with Asia, and the ways in which those encounters altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science and religion since the Renaissance. The books of the third volume of this work cover the 17th century.

Product details

• Authors: E.J.V. Kley, Edwin J. van Kley, Donald F. Lach, Lach Donald F., Edwin J.Van Levy, Edwin J. Van Kley
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1998
• EAN: 9780226467689
• ISBN: 978-0-226-46768-9
• No. of pages: 578
• Illustrations: 69 halftones, 9 line drawings, 4 maps
• Series: Asia in the Making of Europe V
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, Cultural Studies, European History, Asia, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599