wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Travellers and Cosmographers: Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology
ISBN: 9781138382367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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239,46 zł |
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India Through European Eyes, 1250-1625
ISBN: 9780521526135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspect of the cultural transformation of Europe throughout the Renaissance. Focusing on European travelers in India and their analysis of Hindu society, politics and religion, it also offers a detailed and systematic study of the variety of travel narratives describing South India from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In addition, the book proposes a novel approach to the study of European attitudes toward non-Europeans.
This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspe...
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205,86 zł |
Travellers and Cosmographers: Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology
ISBN: 9780754659365 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Joan-Pau Rubies brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of curiosity and were the subject of a vast range of writings, much of them with an empirical basis, albeit often subtly fictionalized. In the context of intense literary and intellectual activity that characterized the Renaissance, the encounters generated by European colonial activities in fact produced a...
Joan-Pau Rubies brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation...
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755,01 zł |
Medieval Ethnographies: European Perceptions of the World Beyond
ISBN: 9780754659556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the twelfth century, a growing sense of cultural confidence in the Latin West (at the same time that the central lands of Islam suffered from numerous waves of conquest and devastation) was accompanied by the increasing importance of the genre of empirical ethnographies. From a a global perspective what is most distinctive of Europe is the genre's long-term impact rather than its mere empirical potential, or its ethnocentrism (all of which can also be found in China and in Islamic cultures). Hence what needs emphasizing is the multiplication of original writings over time, their...
From the twelfth century, a growing sense of cultural confidence in the Latin West (at the same time that the central lands of Islam suffered from num...
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1301,74 zł |
Exploring Cultural History: Essays in Honour of Peter Burke
ISBN: 9781138631151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Over the past 30 years, cultural history has moved from the periphery to the centre of historical studies, profoundly influencing the way we look at and analyze all aspects of the past. In this volume, a distinguished group of international historians has come together to consider the rise of cultural history in general, and to highlight the particular role played in this rise by Peter Burke, the first professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and one of the most prolific and influential authors in the field.
Over the past 30 years, cultural history has moved from the periphery to the centre of historical studies, profoundly influencing the way we look at a...
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260,30 zł |
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250–1625
ISBN: 9780521770552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspect of the cultural transformation of Europe throughout the Renaissance. Focusing on European travelers in India and their analysis of Hindu society, politics and religion, it also offers a detailed and systematic study of the variety of travel narratives describing South India from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In addition, the book proposes a novel approach to the study of European attitudes toward non-Europeans.
This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspe...
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598,25 zł |