Asia in the making of Europe. Volume I, The century of discovery. Book One / Donald F. Lach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lach, Donald F. (Donald Frederick), 1917-2000.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East and West--Asia--History.

East and West.

Europe--Civilization--Oriental influences.

Europe.

Asia--Discovery and exploration.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 492 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994, c1965.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history. Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Introduction

Contents

Illustrations

PART I. Heritage

PART II. New Channels of Information

PART III. Four Images and a Composite Picture

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612538773

9781282538771

1282538772

9780226467085

0226467082

OCLC:

647877973