First globalization : the Eurasian exchange, 1500 to 1800 / Geoffrey C. Gunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunn, Geoffrey C.

Series:

World social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East and West.

Europe--Relations--Asia.

Europe.

Relations.

Asia.

Asia--Relations--Europe.

Europe--Civilization--Oriental influences.

Civilization.

Asia--Foreign public opinion, Western.

Physical Description:

xviii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]

Summary:

First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his metageography of the vast Eurasian zone, Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language, play, crime and punishment, gender, and governance, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and creolization of cultures. 0742526623 First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his metageography of the vast Eurasian zone, Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language, play, crime and punishment, gender, and governance, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and creolization of cultures. 0742526631 One of the most unexpected outcomes of the Soviet bloc's transition out of communism is the divergent but important paths followed by once ruling communist parties. In The Left Transformed this ideological split into free market social democrats (Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania), anti-Western neo-Leninists (Russia and Ukraine), and doctrinal fence-sitters (the ex-communists of former East Germany) is explored through in-depth interviews, party presses and primary documents, and national election data. The careful examination of each party's transition as well as the most current information on organization, ideology, and electoral fortunes through late 2002 makes this book an invaluable resource for anyone interested in contemporary history, political parties, or comparative government in the former Soviet Empire.

Contents:

The discovery canon

Historical confabulators and literary geographers

Observations on nature

Catholic cosmologies

Mapping Eurasia

Enlightenment views of Asian Governance

Civilizational encounters

Livelihoods.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-323) and index.

ISBN:

0742526615

0742526623

OCLC:

51040828