Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia by Jürgen Osterhammel, Jürgen Osterhammel

Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

Jürgen Osterhammel, Jürgen Osterhammel

25 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 1998 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and ...

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