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First Globalization - The Eurasian Exchange, 1500-1800 (Paperback)
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First Globalization - The Eurasian Exchange, 1500-1800 (Paperback)
Series: World Social Change
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First Globalization presents an original and sweeping
conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter
between Asia and Europe. Now largely taken for granted, the
exchange resonates in multiple ways even today. Offering a
"metageography" of the vast Eurasian zone, Geoffrey C. Gunn shows
how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas,
philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations
into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. In Europe, the
interaction was reflected in missionary reporting, cartographic
representations, literary productions, and intellectual fashions,
alongside the business of commerce and plunder (when it reached the
Americas and peripheries). In Asia--notably China, India, and
particularly Japan--European ideas and their bearers received a
remarkably positive hearing when they did not challenge reigning
orthodoxies. Ranging from discussions of the natural world,
livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language,
play, crime and punishment, gender, and governance, this book
replays the themes of enduring hybridity and "creolization" of
cultures dating from the first great encounter between Europe and
Asia.
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