Facing each other : the world's perception of Europe and Europe's perception of the world
This two-volume set presents 25 articles (published between 1964 and 1996) as part of a series that seeks to transcend nationalist histories and to examine the global stage rather than discrete regions important to selected facets of the European presence overseas. The introductions to each volume clarify the conceptual framework and rationale for the selection of articles and assess the importance of the specific aspect being discussed in the larger context of European activities (thus acquainting readers with broad trends in the historiography and alerting them to controversies and conflicting interpretations). In addition, they describe and evaluate the importance of change over time; explain differences attributable to differing geographical, cultural institutional, and economic circumstances; and suggest the potential for cross cultural, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Print Book, English, ©2000
Ashgate/Variorum, Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain, ©2000
Expanding world, v. 31, pt. 1-2
2 volumes (xxxvi, 698 pages) ; 25 cm.
9780860785262, 0860785262
42683027
The medieval west and the Indian Ocean: An oneiric horizon / Jacques Le Goff
The image of the barbarian in medieval europe / W.R. Jones
Aboriginal property and western theory: recovering a middle ground / James Tully
New worlds and Renaissance ethnology / Joan-Pau Rubiés
The methodising of travel in the 16th Century: a tale of three cities / Justin Stagl
The discovery of America and the discovery of man / J.H. Elliott
Strange things, gross terms, curious customs: The rehearsal of cultures in the late Renaissance / Steve Mullaney
Image de l'autre et image de soi-même dans le discours ethnologique au XVIIIe siècle / Roger Mercier
La connaissance des autres: théories et pratiques / Tzvetan Todorov
Asia in the eyes of Europe: The seventeenth century / Donald F. Lach and Edwin J. Van Kley
Christian and Chinese visions of the world in the seventeenth century / Jacques Gernet
Creating an image of Europe for China: Aleni's Hsi-fang ta-wen / John L. Mish
Imagined peripheries: the world and its peoples in Japanese cartographic imagination / Masayuki Sato
China, the Confucian ideal, and the European age of enlightenment / Walter W. Davis
Diderot and the image of China in eighteenth-century France / Huguette Cohen. Amerindian views of French culture in the seventeenth century / Cornelius J. Jaenen
Facing up to Caribbean history / Jalil Sued-Badillo
English perceptions of treachery, 1583-1640: The case of the American 'savages' / Karen Ordahl Kupperman
White kings on black kings: rui de pina and the problem of black African sovereignty / Peter Russell
Scratches on the face of the country; or, what Mr. Barrow saw in the land of the Bushmen / Mary Louise Pratt
African history, anthropology, and the rationality of natives / Wyatt MacGaffey
The exotic as erotic: Captain Cook at Tahiti / Roy Porter
The Pacific Ocean: the eighteenth century's 'New World' / Alan Frost
Possessing Tahiti / Greg Dening
Naturalist versus nations: eighteenth-century Russian scholars confront ethnic diversity / Yuri Slezkine
A collection of articles previously published in various sources, 1964-1996