Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

ISBN-13: 9780691172729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 696 str.

Jurgen Osterhammel; Robert Savage

Recenzje

"Erudite, original, and lively. Osterhammel defends the Enlightenment from the charge of Eurocentrism and portrays in sparkling detail its humane legacy of self-criticism and communication with other cultures."--Harry Liebersohn, author of The Travelers' World: Europe to the Pacific

O autorze

Jürgen Osterhammel is professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Konstanz. He is a recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany's most prestigious academic award. His books include The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century and, with Jan C. Jansen, Decolonization: A Short History (both Princeton). He lives in Freiburg, Germany.