The Constructions Of The East In Western Travel Narratives 1200 Ce To 1800 Ce

Author : Radhika Seshan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000713053

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The Constructions of the East in Western Travel Narratives, 1200 CE to 1800 CE by Radhika Seshan Pdf

This book investigates how the idea of the ‘east’ emerged in western travel narratives between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Sifting through critical travel narratives — real and imagined — it locates the changing geography as well as the perceptions surrounding India. The author presents how historical stereotypes interacted with a burgeoning demand for travelogues during this period and have fed into the way we think about Asia in general, and India in particular. From the mythical travels of Prester John to the enigmatic ‘adventures’ of Marco Polo, from the fraught voyages of Johannes Plano de Carpini to the missionary zeal of Friar Odoric of Pordenone and William of Rubruquis, this volume traces the history of the ‘Orient’ as it was understood by the west. A major intervention in understanding how popular narratives shape history, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, medieval history, history of travel, world literature, postcolonial studies, and general readers interested in travel narratives.

Author : Rila Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811665813

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India in the Indian Ocean World by Rila Mukherjee Pdf

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. Issues such as India's history, India’s changing status in the region, and India's cross-cultural networking over a long period are explored in this book. It is organized in specific themes in thirteen chapters. It incorporates a wealth of research on India’s strategic significance in the Indian Ocean arena throughout history. It enriches the reader's understanding of the emergence of the Indian Ocean basin as a global arena for cross-cultural networking and nation-building. It discusses issues of trade and commerce, the circulation of ideas, peoples and objects, and social and religious themes, focusing on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. The book provides a refreshingly different survey of India’s connected history in the Indian Ocean region starting from the archaeological record and ending with the coming of empire. The author’s unique experience, combined with an engaging writing style, makes the book highly readable. The book contributes to the field of global history and is of great interest to researchers, policymakers, teachers, and students across the fields of political, cultural, and economic history and strategic studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004506572

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Merchant Cultures by Anonim Pdf

The way merchants trade, think about business and represent commerce in art forms define merchant culture. The world between 1500 and 1800 encompassed different merchant cultures that stood alone and in contact with others. Culture, power relations and institutions framed similarities and differences and outlined the global outcome of these exchanges.

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804153867

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Orientalism by Edward W. Said Pdf

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

Author : Jerry H. Bentley,Sanjay Subrahmanyam,Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1108407730

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The Cambridge World History: Volume 6, The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Part 1, Foundations by Jerry H. Bentley,Sanjay Subrahmanyam,Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Pdf

The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015009220214

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The Engineer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Gas manufacture and works
ISBN : NYPL:33433107898052

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Gas Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Scott D. Westrem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000082319249

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Broader Horizons by Scott D. Westrem Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UIUC:30112040428580

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Engineering World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Gosch,Peter Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134583690

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Premodern Travel in World History by Stephen Gosch,Peter Stearns Pdf

This book features some of the greatest travellers in human history – people who undertook long journeys to places they knew little or nothing about. From Roman tourists, to the establishment of the Silk Road; an epic trek round China and India in the seventh century, to Marco Polo and through to the first speculations on space travel, Premodern Travel in World History provides an overview of long-distance travel in Afro-Eurasia from around 400BCE to 1500. This survey uses succinct accounts of the most epic journeys in the premodern world as lenses through which to examine the development of early travel, trade and cultural interchange between China, central Asia, India and southeast Asia, while also discussing themes such as the growth of empires and the spread of world religions. Complete with maps, this concise and interesting study analyzes how travel pushed and shaped the boundaries of political, geographical and cultural frontiers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UCSD:31822036002673

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Engineering News-record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1996 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Government purchasing
ISBN : NYPL:33433063171114

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Commerce Business Daily by Anonim Pdf

Author : Radhika Seshan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315401973

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Narratives, Routes and Intersections in Pre-Modern Asia by Radhika Seshan Pdf

11 Fairs and pilgrimages as points of intersections: the case of medieval western Maharashtra -- 12 Continuing routes, changed intersections: a study of Fort St. George (Madras) in the seventeenth century

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551995816

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Why the West Rules - For Now by Ian Morris Pdf

Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century. There are two broad schools of thought on why the West rules. Proponents of "Long-Term Lock-In" theories such as Jared Diamond suggest that from time immemorial, some critical factor — geography, climate, or culture perhaps — made East and West unalterably different, and determined that the industrial revolution would happen in the West and push it further ahead of the East. But the East led the West between 500 and 1600, so this development can't have been inevitable; and so proponents of "Short-Term Accident" theories argue that Western rule was a temporary aberration that is now coming to an end, with Japan, China, and India resuming their rightful places on the world stage. However, as the West led for 9,000 of the previous 10,000 years, it wasn't just a temporary aberration. So, if we want to know why the West rules, we need a whole new theory. Ian Morris, boldly entering the turf of Jared Diamond and Niall Ferguson, provides the broader approach that is necessary, combining the textual historian's focus on context, the anthropological archaeologist's awareness of the deep past, and the social scientist's comparative methods to make sense of the past, present, and future — in a way no one has ever done before.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059171106473372

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Portland Transcript by Anonim Pdf