Asian travel in the Renaissance / 
edited by Daniel Carey ; preface by Anthony Reid. 
 - Oxford :  Blackwell Pub.,  2004. 
 - x, 234 p. :  ill., maps ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Published on behalf of the Society for Renaissance studies."  "First published as volume 17, number 3 of Renaissance studies"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1405111607 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Europeans--Travel--History.--Asia
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Asia--Description and travel.<br/>Asia--History--16th century.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>915  / ASI