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From white to yellow : the Japanese in European racial thought, 1300-1735 / Rotem Kowner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kowner, Rotem, author.
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 63.
- McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 63
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations.
- History.
- Racism.
- Race--Social aspects.
- Race.
- Public opinion.
- Japan--Foreign public opinion, European--History.
- Japan.
- Public opinion--Europe--History.
- Race--Social aspects--Europe--History.
- Racism--Europe--History.
- Europe--Race relations--History.
- Europe.
- Japan--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Japan--Description and travel.
- Public opinion, European.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 678 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal & Kingston ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Phase One. Speculation : Pre-Encounter Knowledge of the Japanese (1300-1543). 1. The emergence of "Cipangu" and its precursory ethnography ; 2. The "Cipanguese" at the opening of the age of discovery
- Phase Two. Observation : A Burgeoning Discourse of Initial Encounters (1543-1640). 3. Initial observations of the Japanese ; 4. The Japanese position in contemporary hierarchies ; 5. Concrete mirrors of a new human order ; 6. "Race" and its cognitive limits during the phase of observation
- Phase Three. Reconsideration : Antecendents of a Mature Discourse (1640-1735). 7. Dutch reappraisal of the Japanese body and origins ; 8. Power, status, and the Japanese position in the global order ; 9. In search of a new taxonomy : botany, medicine, and the Japanese ; 10. "Race" and its perceptual limits during the phase of reconsideration
- Conclusion : The discourse of race in early modern Europe and the Japanese case.
- Notes:
- "Legal deposit fourth quarter 2014"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-615) and index.
- Other Format:
- Kowner, Rotem, author. From white to yellow.
- ISBN:
- 9780773544543
- 0773544542
- 9780773544550
- 0773544550
- OCLC:
- 879528886
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