Geoffrey C. Gunn

First Globalization

The Eurasian Exchange, 1500-1800

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his "metageography" of the vast Eurasian zone, 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. 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.

Produktdetails

• World Social Change
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780742526624
• ISBN-10: 0742526623
• Artikelnr.: 22304937

Autorenporträt

By Geoffrey C. Gunn

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface 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