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Facing Each Other (2 Volumes)

The World’s Perception of Europe and Europe’s Perception of the World

Anthony Pagden editor

Format:Set / collection

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

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The perception of Europeans of the world and of the peoples beyond Europe has become in recent years the subject of intense scholarly interest and heated debate both in and outside the academy. So, too, has the concern with how it was that those peoples who were variously ’discovered’, and then, as often as not, colonised, understood the strangers in their midst. This volume attempts to cover both these topics, as well as to provide a number of crucial articles on the difficulties faced by modern historians in understanding the complex, relationship between ’them’ and ’us’. Inevitably such relationships not only changed over time, they also varied greatly from culture to culture. The articles, therefore cover most of the areas with which the European world came into contact from the earliest Portuguese incursions into Africa in the mid fifteenth century until the explorations of Cook and Bougainville in the Pacific in the late eighteenth. It ranges, too, from Brazil to Russia, from Tahiti to China.

'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1 'These two volumes embody much of the best writing on encounter... an enormously valuable contribution, encouraging historians of exploration, encounter and empire both to face up to the burden of the past, and to investigate it with renewed self-confidence.' History of European Ideas 'The worth of this collection lies in the enduring scholarly quality of many of the individual contributions.' Journal of World History

ISBN: 9780860785262

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Weight: 866g

742 pages