TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carey,Daniel
AU  - Reid,Anthony
ED  - Society for Renaissance Studies (Great Britain)
TI  - Asian travel in the Renaissance
SN  - 1405111607 (pbk.)
U1  - 915 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Europeans
KW  - Travel
KW  - Asia
KW  - History
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - 16th century
N1  - "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
ER  -