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Asian travel in the Renaissance / edited by Daniel Carey ; preface by Anthony Reid.

Contributor(s): Carey, Daniel | Reid, Anthony | Society for Renaissance Studies (Great Britain).
Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2004Description: x, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 1405111607 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Renaissance studies. Subject(s): Europeans -- Travel -- Asia -- History | Asia -- Description and travel | Asia -- History -- 16th centuryDDC classification: 915
Contents:
Notes on contributors. - Preface. - 1. Introduction. - Daniel Carey. - 2. Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer. - M. Antoni J. Ucerler, SJ. - 3. The transmission of renaissance culture in seventeenth-century China. - Nicolas Standaert. - 4. The widening of the world and the realm of history: early european approaches to the beginnings of siamese history, c. 1500-1700. - Joan-Pau Rubies. 5. The spanish contribution to the ethnology of Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. - Joan-Pau Rubies. - 6. A truthful pen and an impartial spirit': Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola and thecomquista de las islas malucas. - John Villiers. - 7. "Whereever profit lead us, to every sea and shore...": the VOC, the WIC, and dutch methods of globalization in the seventeenth century. - Claudia Schnurmann. - 8. Riches, power, trade and religion: the Far East and the english imagination, 1600-1720. - 9. The political economy of poison: the kingdom of Makassar and the early royal society. - Daniel CAREY. - Obituart. - Professor C.R. Boxer (1904-2000). - Index.
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"Published on behalf of the Society for Renaissance studies."

"First published as volume 17, number 3 of Renaissance studies"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on contributors. - Preface. - 1. Introduction. - Daniel Carey. - 2. Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer. - M. Antoni J. Ucerler, SJ. - 3. The transmission of renaissance culture in seventeenth-century China. - Nicolas Standaert. - 4. The widening of the world and the realm of history: early european approaches to the beginnings of siamese history, c. 1500-1700. - Joan-Pau Rubies. 5. The spanish contribution to the ethnology of Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. - Joan-Pau Rubies. - 6. A truthful pen and an impartial spirit': Bartolome Leonardo de Argensola and thecomquista de las islas malucas. - John Villiers. - 7. "Whereever profit lead us, to every sea and shore...": the VOC, the WIC, and dutch methods of globalization in the seventeenth century. - Claudia Schnurmann. - 8. Riches, power, trade and religion: the Far East and the english imagination, 1600-1720. - 9. The political economy of poison: the kingdom of Makassar and the early royal society. - Daniel CAREY. - Obituart. - Professor C.R. Boxer (1904-2000). - Index.