A cape of Asia : essays on European history / Henk Wesseling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wesseling, H. L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East and West.

Europe--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Leiden] : Leiden University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A Cape of Asia collects eighteen of Wesseling’s finest essays on European History, clustered around three concerns: The Wider View, or the historical European perspective on globalization, migration and decolonization; Europe’s Identity, reflecting the shift from Eurocentrism to Americanization and Europe’s acceptance of Japan, China and India as new key players in the global economy; and European Ideas about Education, Science, and Art. The third section includes the articles ‘Johan Huizinga and the Spirit of the Nineteen Thirties’ and ‘The Expansion of Europe and the Development of Science and Technology’. A small cape of Asia was how Paul Valéry described Europe in 1919 – a pointed summary of the new mood that came over Europe in the interbellum years. Wesseling’s essays hold to the original sense of the word: personal reflections on vast subjects written for an intellectual and interested but not necessarily specialized readership.

Contents:

Preface and introduction

Europe and the wider world

European identities

European civilization

Notes

Acknowledgements

About the author

Index of names.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786613522740

9781280118456

1280118458

9789400600461

9400600461

OCLC:

782878255

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_606218