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Author : Warren Sears Nickerson
Release : 1994
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Early Encounters--Native Americans and Europeans in New England by : Warren Sears Nickerson
Download or read book Early Encounters--Native Americans and Europeans in New England written by Warren Sears Nickerson. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralf Hertel
Release : 2017-07-14
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 189/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe by : Ralf Hertel
Download or read book Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe written by Ralf Hertel. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While inquiries into early encounters between East Asia and the West have traditionally focused on successful interactions, this collection inquires into the many forms of failure, experienced on all sides, in the period before 1850. Countering a tendency in scholarship to overlook unsuccessful encounters, it starts from the assumption that failures can prove highly illuminating and provide valuable insights into both the specific shapes and limitations of East Asian and Western imaginations of the Other, as well as of the nature of East-West interaction. Interdisciplinary in outlook, this collection brings together the perspectives of sinology, Japanese and Korean studies, historical studies, literary studies, art history, religious studies, and performance studies. The subjects discussed are manifold and range from missionary accounts, travel reports, letters and trade documents to fictional texts as well as material objects (such as tea, chinaware, or nautical instruments) exchanged between East and West. In order to avoid a Eurocentric perspective, the collection balances approaches from the fields of English literature, Spanish studies, Neo-Latin studies, and art history with those of sinology, Japanese studies, and Korean studies. It includes an introduction mapping out the field of failures in early modern encounters between East Asia and Europe, as well as a theoretically minded essay on the lessons of failure and the ethics of cross-cultural understanding.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Release : 2012-10-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 363/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Courtly Encounters by : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Download or read book Courtly Encounters written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere.
Author : Howard B. Leavitt
Release : 2010-06-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis First Encounters by : Howard B. Leavitt
Download or read book First Encounters written by Howard B. Leavitt. This book was released on 2010-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection comprising a wide variety of accounts of native peoples describing their initial encounters with European explorers, conquerors, and settlers. This extraordinary volume gathers together an astonishing array of voices of those so often overlooked by history. First Encounters: Native Voices on the Coming of the Europeans reaches back to add important overlooked viewpoints to our understanding of history, gathering together accounts describing the initial experiences of indigenous peoples around the world with European explorers, missionaries, traders, soldiers, and settlers. It is the first such volume with a truly global perspective. First Encounters brings together 42 authentic, first-person accounts, organized geographically in sections on Africa, North America, South America, greater Australia, and Asia. Selections, each with editor's notes, provide vivid, detailed accounts of the culture clashes that defined an era. From the Opium Wars to the Indian Wars, from the Aztecs who thought the white intruders were gods to the Japanese who thought them barbarians, readers will encounter a stunning array of voices from the other side of history.
Author : Benno Gammerl
Release : 2019-06-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 248/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Encounters with Emotions by : Benno Gammerl
Download or read book Encounters with Emotions written by Benno Gammerl. This book was released on 2019-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them. Each of the case studies collected here investigates fascinating historiographical questions that arise from the study of emotion, from the strategies people have used to interpret and understand each other’s emotions to the roles that emotions have played in obstructing communication across cultural divides. Together, they explore the cultural aspects of nature as well as the bodily dimensions of nurture and trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.
