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First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. Now largely taken for granted, the exchange resonates in multiple ways even today. Offering a 'metageography' of the vast Eurasian zone, Geoffrey C. 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. In Europe, the interaction was reflected in missionary reporting, cartographic representations, literary productions, and intellectual fashions, alongside the business of commerce and plunder (when it reached the Americas and peripheries). In Asia--notably China, India, and particularly Japan--European ideas and their bearers received a remarkably positive hearing when they did not challenge reigning orthodoxies. 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 dating from the first great encounter between Europe and Asia.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Glossary
Chapter 3 List of Illustrations
Chapter 4 Introduction
Part 5 The Discovery Canon
Part 6 Historical Confabulators and Literary Geographers
Part 7 Observations on Nature
Part 8 Catholic Cosmologies
Part 9 Mapping Eurasia
Part 10 Enlightenment Views of Asian Governance
Part 11 Civilizational Encounters
Part 12 Livelihoods
Part 13 Language, Power and Hegemony in European Oriental Studies
Part 14 A Theory of Global Culturalization
Chapter 15 Conclusion
Product details
| Published | 05 Jun 2003 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 1 |
| ISBN | 9798216206729 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Series | World Social Change |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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