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Book A Collection of Several Relations   Treatises Singular and Curious  of John Baptista Tavernier  Baron of Aubonne

Download or read book A Collection of Several Relations Treatises Singular and Curious of John Baptista Tavernier Baron of Aubonne written by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and published by . This book was released on 1680 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Collection of Several Relations and Treatises Singular and Curious of John Baptista Tavernier  Baron of Aubonne Not Printed Among His First Six Voyages

Download or read book A Collection of Several Relations and Treatises Singular and Curious of John Baptista Tavernier Baron of Aubonne Not Printed Among His First Six Voyages written by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Collection of Several Relations   Treatises Singular and Curious  of John Baptista Tavernier  Baron of Aubonne

Download or read book A Collection of Several Relations Treatises Singular and Curious of John Baptista Tavernier Baron of Aubonne written by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and published by . This book was released on 1680 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Collection of Several Relations   Treatises Singular and Curious  of John Baptista Tavernier  Baron of Aubonne

Download or read book A Collection of Several Relations Treatises Singular and Curious of John Baptista Tavernier Baron of Aubonne written by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and published by . This book was released on 1680 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Collection of Several Relations   Treatises Singular and Curious  of John Baptista Tavernier  Baron of Aubonne  Not Printed Among His First Six Voyages  Divided Into Five Parts  Viz  I  A New and Singular Relation of the Kingdom of Tunquin     II  How the Hollanders Manage Their Affairs in Asia  III  A Relation of Japon  and the Cause of the Persecution of the Christians in Those Islands     IV  A Relation of what Passed in the Negotiation of the Deputies which Were at Persia  and the Indies     V  Observations Upon the East India Trade  and the Frauds There Subject to be Committed

Download or read book A Collection of Several Relations Treatises Singular and Curious of John Baptista Tavernier Baron of Aubonne Not Printed Among His First Six Voyages Divided Into Five Parts Viz I A New and Singular Relation of the Kingdom of Tunquin II How the Hollanders Manage Their Affairs in Asia III A Relation of Japon and the Cause of the Persecution of the Christians in Those Islands IV A Relation of what Passed in the Negotiation of the Deputies which Were at Persia and the Indies V Observations Upon the East India Trade and the Frauds There Subject to be Committed written by and published by . This book was released on 1680 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Asiatica

Download or read book Bibliotheca Asiatica written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Martyrs of Japan

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  • Author : Rady Roldán-Figueroa
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2021-06-22
  • ISBN : 9004458069
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The Martyrs of Japan written by Rady Roldán-Figueroa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examinination of the role that Catholic missionary orders played in the dissemination of accounts of Christian martyrdom in Japan. The author offers an overarching portrayal of the writing, printing, and circulation of books of “Japano-martyrology.”

Book From White to Yellow

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  • Author : Rotem Kowner
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2014-12-01
  • ISBN : 0773596844
  • Pages : 707 pages

Download or read book From White to Yellow written by Rotem Kowner and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. Accounting for this dramatic transformation, From White to Yellow is a groundbreaking study of the evolution of European interpretations of the Japanese and the emergence of discourses about race in early modern Europe. Transcending the conventional focus on Africans and Jews within the rise of modern racism, Rotem Kowner demonstrates that the invention of race did not emerge in a vacuum in eighteenth-century Europe, but rather was a direct product of earlier discourses of the "Other." This compelling study indicates that the racial discourse on the Japanese, alongside the Chinese, played a major role in the rise of the modern concept of race. While challenging Europe's self-possession and sense of centrality, the discourse delayed the eventual consolidation of a hierarchical worldview in which Europeans stood immutably at the apex. Drawing from a vast array of primary sources, From White to Yellow traces the racial roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West.

Book The Arms of the Family

Download or read book The Arms of the Family written by John T. Shawcross and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John T. Shawcross's groundbreaking new study of John Milton is an essential work of scholarship for those who seek a greater understanding of Milton, his family, and his social and political world. Shawcross uses extensive new archival research to scrutinize several misunderstood elements of Milton's life, including his first marriage and his relationship with his brother, brother-in-law and nephews. Shawcross examines Milton's numerous royalist connections, complicating the conventional view of Milton as eminent Puritan and raising questions about the role his connections played in his relatively mild punishment after the Restoration. Unique in its methodology, The Arms of the Family is required reading not only for students of Milton but also for students of biography in general. Entire chapters dedicated to Milton's brother Christopher, his brother-in-law Thomas Agar, and his nephews Edward and John Phillips, illuminate the domestic forces that helped shape Milton's point of view. The final chapters reconsider Milton's political and sociological ideology in the light of these domestic forces and in the religious context of his three major poetic works: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, and Samson Agonistes. The Arms of the Family is a seminal work by a preeminent Miltonist, marking a major advance in Milton studies and serving as a model for those engaged in family history, social history, and the early modern period.

Book Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol

Download or read book Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did word of the Buddha first reach Western ears? Over the centuries, until the first reliable introduction to Buddhism was published in France in 1844, rumors and reports of this oriental idol and his teachings reached the West in haphazard but fascinating ways. A Jesuit missionary traveling with a Thai delegation to the court of Louis XIV spent months at sea with a Buddhist monk and asked him many questions. A Russian ship captain was held captive for three years in Japan and learned about the Buddha from his jailors. A Catholic priest in China dressed like a Confucian gentleman and learned in this way to disparage the Buddha. British army officers on surveys of India struggled to decipher monuments, inscriptions, and statues. Western references to Buddhism extend back to the first years of the third century CE, and during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, European contact with, and writing about, Buddhism was extensive. Because much of this writing is considered wrong today, it is often forgotten or dismissed, but in this anthology Donald S. Lopez Jr. shows their great importance for understanding how our view of the Buddha evolved, from an idol worshipped by heathens to the revered founder of a religion. This fascinating compendium begins with Clement of Alexandria around 200 and ends with the great French scholar Eugene Burnouf in 1844. It can be read as a companion to Lopez s 2013 book From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha (forthcoming in paperback in the same season) or enjoyed on its own for its strange but instructive tales."

Book Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World

Download or read book Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World written by Anna Winterbottom and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections between scholarship, patronage, diplomacy, trade, and colonial settlement in the early modern world. Links of patronage between cosmopolitan writers and collectors and scholars associated with the Royal Society of London and the universities are investigated. Winterbottom shows how innovative works of scholarship – covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine, and agriculture - were created amid multi-directional struggles for supremacy in Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. The role of non-elite actors including slaves in transferring knowledge and skills between settlements is explored in detail.

Book Travels in India

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  • Author : Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1889
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Travels in India written by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89) was one of the most renowned travelers of 17th century Europe. The son of a French Protestant who had fled Antwerp to escape religious persecution, Tavernier was a jewel merchant who between 1632 and 1668 made six voyages to the East. The countries he visited (most more than once) included present-day Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. In 1676 he published his two-volume Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier (The six voyages of Jean Baptiste Tavernier). An abridged and very imperfect English translation of the book appeared in 1677. The first modern scholarly edition in English, presented here, was published in 1889, with translation, notes, and a biographical sketch of Tavernier by Dr. Valentine Ball (1843-95), a British civil servant with the Indian Geological Service. Among the most memorable chapters in the book are those that recount Tavernier's visits to the diamond mines of India and his inspection of the jewels of the Great Mogul. Tavernier was not a scholar or an educated linguist, and after his initial popularity in the 17th century his authority waned, as historians and others questioned the accuracy of his observations. In the 20th century, however, Tavernier's reputation rose, as such important historians as Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel used the detailed information he recorded about the prices and qualities of goods and about business and commercial practices in their pioneering studies of economic and social history. The book contains several appendices by Ball about famous diamonds (including the historic Koh-i-Noor Diamond now belonging to the British royal family), diamond mines in India and Borneo, ruby mines in Burma, and sapphire washings in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A fold-out map shows Tavernier's voyages in India and the mines he visited.

Book Report of the National Museum

Download or read book Report of the National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maritime Animals

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  • Author : Kaori Nagai
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2023-08-31
  • ISBN : 027109639X
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Maritime Animals written by Kaori Nagai and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores nonhuman animals’ involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail—as well as the myriad multispecies connections formed across different geographical locations knitted together by the long history of global ship movement. Far from treating the ship as a confined space defined by the sea, Maritime Animals considers the ship’s connections to broader contexts and networks and covers a variety of locations, from the Canadian Arctic to the Pacific Islands. Each chapter focuses on the oceanic experiences of a particular species, from ship vermin, animals transported onboard as food, and animal specimens for scientific study to livestock, companion and working animals, deep-sea animals that find refuge in shipwrecks, and terrestrial animals that hunker down on flotsam and jetsam. Drawing on recent scholarship in animal studies, maritime studies, environmental humanities, and a wide range of other perspectives and storytelling approaches, Maritime Animals challenges an anthropocentric understanding of maritime history. Instead, this volume highlights the ways in which species, through their interaction with the oceans, tell stories and make histories in significant and often surprising ways. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Anna Boswell, Nancy Cushing, Lea Edgar, David Haworth, Donna Landry, Derek Lee Nelson, Jimmy Packham, Laurence Publicover, Killian Quigley, Lynette Russell, Adam Sundberg, and Thom van Dooren.

Book A Collection of Several Relations   Treatises Singular and Curious  of John Baptista Tevernier  Baron of Aubonne

Download or read book A Collection of Several Relations Treatises Singular and Curious of John Baptista Tevernier Baron of Aubonne written by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and published by . This book was released on 1680 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supplemental catalogue of books  by author  title  subject and class  added     from October 1874 to December 1879  1893

Download or read book Supplemental catalogue of books by author title subject and class added from October 1874 to December 1879 1893 written by National library of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: