商品簡介
Asian Travel in the Renaissance looks at travel in Asia for the purposes of trade, colonialism and religious conversion by a diverse array of Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and English protagonists in the Renaissance era.
- Examines European travel in Asia from a variety of perspectives.
- Presents new research by international scholars.
- Establishes the importance of Asia as a place of aspiration in the early modern period.
作者簡介
Daniel Carey is Lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has edited a ‘Les voyages de Gulliver: Mondes lointains ou modes proches’ (2002) and is Editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland.
目次
Notes on Contributors.
Preface: Anthony Reid.
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: Sven Trakulhun.
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 the Conquista de las Islas Malucas: John Villiers.
7. "Wherever profit leads 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: Robert Markley.
9. The Political Economy of Poison: The Kingdom of Makassar and the Early Royal Society: Daniel Carey.
Obituary -
C.R. Boxer (1904-2000).
Index.
