Asia In The Making Of Europe Volume I

Author : Donald F. Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226467092

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Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

Author : Donald F. Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226467085

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I by Donald F. Lach Pdf

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

Author : Donald F. Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226466972

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III by Donald F. Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph P. McDermott,Peter Burke
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888208081

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The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450–1850 by Joseph P. McDermott,Peter Burke Pdf

This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different approaches to publishing, printing, and book culture. They discuss the extent of technology transfer and book distribution between the two regions and show how much book historians of East Asia and Europe can learn from one another by raising new questions, exploring remarkable similarities and differences in these regions’ production, distribution, and consumption of books. The chapters in turn show different ways of writing transnational comparative history. Whereas recent problems confronting research on European books can instruct researchers on East Asian book production, so can the privileged role of noncommercial publications in the East Asian textual record highlight for historians of the European book the singular contribution of commercial printing and market demands to the making of the European printed record. Likewise, although production growth was accompanied in both regions by a wider distribution of books, woodblock technology’s simplicity and mobility allowed for a shift in China of its production and distribution sites farther down the hierarchy of urban sites than was common in Europe. And, the different demands and consumption practices within these two regions’ expanding markets led to different genre preferences and uses as well as to the growth of distinctive female readerships. A substantial introduction pulls the work together and the volume ends with an essay that considers how these historical developments shape the present book worlds of Eurasia. “This splendid volume offers expert new insight into the ways of producing, financing, distributing, and reading printed books in early modern Europe and East Asia. This is comparative history at its best, which leaves us with a better understanding of each context and of the challenges common to book cultures across space and time.” —Ann Blair, author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age and professor of history, Harvard University “This engrossing account of the history of the book by leading specialists on the European and East Asian publishing worlds takes stock of what we know—and how much we still need to know—about the places that books had in the lives of our early modern forebears. Each chapter is masterful state-of-the-field coverage of its subject, and together they set a new standard for future studies of the book, East and West.” —Timothy Brook, author of The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties

Author : Donald F. Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0226467538

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Asia in the Making of Europe by Donald F. Lach Pdf

Author : Rahul Mishra,Azirah Hashim,Anthony Milner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000381948

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Asia and Europe in the 21st Century by Rahul Mishra,Azirah Hashim,Anthony Milner Pdf

How are the rising mutual concerns of Asian and European countries shaping their approaches to the international order? Contributors to this volume discuss emerging critical issues in International relations, including the Indo-Pacific constructs, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and the progress of established regional security mechanisms like the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. They also compare western and non-western approaches to these issues, with a holistic perspective on the origins and evolutions of these approaches. Both the Indo-Pacific constructs and BRI present a remarkable set of opportunities for Europe as well as Asia. This book presents key implications of the changing politico-security dynamics in the two regions from the perspectives of both Asian and European scholars and theoretical traditions. A must-read for scholars of International Relations with a focus on relations between Asia and Europe.

Author : Julie Gilson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782542833

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Asia Meets Europe by Julie Gilson Pdf

'Julie Gilson's book provides a well-developed explanatory framework to understand the new economic, political and socio-cultural dimensions of contemporary Asia-Europe relations. . . The book provides a well-developed theoretical discussion on Asia-Europe relationships. . . This book is a good start and can serve as a reference for those who are interested in Asian studies, Asia-Europe relations and international political economy.' - Dong Guo, The Economic Journal

Author : Prasannan Parthasarathi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139498890

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Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not by Prasannan Parthasarathi Pdf

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than different, both characterized by sophisticated and growing economies. Their subsequent divergence can be attributed to different competitive and ecological pressures that in turn produced varied state policies and economic outcomes. This account breaks with conventional views, which hold that divergence occurred because Europe possessed superior markets, rationality, science or institutions. It offers instead a groundbreaking rereading of global economic development that ranges from India, Japan and China to Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire and from the textile and coal industries to the roles of science, technology and the state.

Author : Donald F. Lach,Donald Frederick Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226467554

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III by Donald F. Lach,Donald Frederick Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley Pdf

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. Book 3: Southeast Asia examines European images of the lands, societies, religions, and cultures of Southeast Asia. The continental nations of Siam, Vietnam, Malaya, Pegu, Arakan, Cambodia, and Laos are discussed, as are the islands of Java, Bali, Sumatra, Borneo, Amboina, the Moluccas, the Bandas, Celebes, the Lesser Sundas, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Mindanao, Jolo, Guam, and the Marianas.

Author : Donald Frederick Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley,Edwin J.. Van Kley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0226467546

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South Asia by Donald Frederick Lach,Edwin J. Van Kley,Edwin J.. Van Kley Pdf

Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674365414

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Makers of Modern Asia by Ramachandra Guha Pdf

The twenty-first century has been dubbed the Asian Century. Highlighting diverse thinker-politicians rather than billionaire businessmen, Makers of Modern Asia presents eleven leaders who theorized and organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems.

Author : Fabienne Bossuyt,Bart Dessein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000468847

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The European Union, China and Central Asia by Fabienne Bossuyt,Bart Dessein Pdf

This book examines the involvement of the European Union (EU) and China in Central Asia and critically assesses the implications this has for the region as a whole. The volume adopts a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach, combining insights from International Relations, EU Studies, International Economics, International Law, Sinology, and History. It concentrates on three thematic levels: (1) historical and contextual, (2) geopolitical and geo-economic, and (3) socio-cultural and institutional. Paying particular attention to the role of the EU and the factors driving the EU’s and China’s relations with Central Asia, it looks at how the Central Asian countries position themselves vis-à-vis China’s growing influence, and how the balance of power between China, Russia, and the EU plays out. Contributors also explore the important historical context of the ‘Silk Routes’, as well as of the erstwhile connection of the Central Asian states with the Soviet Union. Critically analysing the potential areas for collaboration and synergy between the EU and China, the book also discusses the extent to which they share a common ground in Central Asia that could serve as a basis for long-term cooperation. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of International Relations, Economics, Sinology, and History.

Author : Jeremy Garlick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351182744

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The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative by Jeremy Garlick Pdf

This book merges macro- and micro-level analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to dissect China’s aim in creating an integrated Eurasian continent through this single mega-project. BRI has been the source of much interest and confusion, as established frameworks of analysis seek to understand China’s intentions behind the policy. China’s international activity in the early 21st century has not yet been successfully theorised by IR scholars because of a failure to satisfactorily encompass its complexity. In addition, the mix-and-match syncretism of the Chinese approach to foreign policy has been under-emphasised or omitted in many analyses. Bringing together complexity thinking and analytic eclecticism to assess the degree to which this scheme can transform international relations, Garlick critically examines this large-scale interconnectivity project and its potential impacts. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the field of international relations and China studies including academics, policy-makers and diplomats around the world.

Author : Suthiphand Chirathivat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015059267594

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Asia-Europe on the Eve of the 21st Century by Suthiphand Chirathivat Pdf

Author : Michael North
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0754669378

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Artistic and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900 by Michael North Pdf

Traditionally, relations between Europe and Asia have been studied in a hegemonic perspective, with Europe as the dominant political and economic centre. This book focuses on cultural exchange between different European and Asian civilizations, with the r