Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III, Book 1

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The Century of Advance Written by Donald F. Lach and Edwin J. Van Kley This monumental series, acclaimed as a “masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship” in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia’s high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in...

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The Century of Advance

Written by Donald F. Lach and Edwin J. Van Kley

This monumental series, acclaimed as a “masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship” in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia’s high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance.

In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.

Book 1: Trade, Missions, Literature discusses Christian missions and trade and conquest in the East. It examines the various histories, reports, letterbooks, and travelogues printed and widely disseminated throughout Europe in the seventeenth century. Individual chapters cover literature from Iberia, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and England.

Volume III, Book 1, Paperback, 674 pages, illustrated with 106 halftones, notes, index, publisher's list price Cn$98.95