Asia in the Making of Europe (v.1, Bk.1)

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.

ISBN 0226467317   Pages 504 ISBN13 9780226467313 (What's this?)   Part volume The Century of Discovery Publisher The University of Chicago Press   Volumes 1 Imprint University of Chicago Press   Weight (grammes) 792 Format Paperback   Published in Chicago, IL Publication date 01 Feb 1994   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress DS   Width (mm) 154 DEWEY 950   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY edition DC12A   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

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