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Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels - Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels - Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial
writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the
world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in
England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the
New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through
trade links, such as Turkey and the Moluccan islands, and of places
that featured just as significantly in the early modern English
imagination: from Ireland to Russia and the Far East, from Calais
to India and Africa, from France and Italy to the West Indies. The
writings reveal painstaking attempts to understand the 'other' as
well as ignorance and prejudice, surprising connections alongside
phobic reactions to difference, the desire to co-operate alongside
the desire to extinguish and exploit. The second edition of
Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is significantly revised and
expanded, twenty years after the first edition helped to establish
the field of travel and colonial writing in English. The anthology
includes substantial new chapters of extracts on 'The North',
detailing the important Arctic voyages and search for the elusive
North-West Passage; 'Islamic West Asia and the Eastern
Mediterranean', includes new material on Persia, Russia, and
Jerusalem; 'England from Elsewhere' includes observations of
England and the English from European travellers; and the epilogue
on women travellers, explores the importance in particular of Lady
Catherine Whetenhall's journey to Italy, recorded after her early
death. The chapter on Africa includes new material on the Congo,
Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and the chapter on East Asia and the
South Seas contains new material on China and Japan. There are new
images of West African figures and Sir Anthony and Lady Shirley in
Persian courtly attire. The introduction has been carefully revised
to take into account the wealth of scholarship on English
perceptions of Asia and the Mediterranean, and the analysis of race
and racial identity has been expanded in line with contemporary
concerns. Headnotes and notes have been revised and expanded
throughout the text. The anthology is the most comprehensive
single-volume available in English, and, with its newly modernized
text and reader-friendly apparatus, is designed to appeal to the
general as well as the specialist reader. It is essential reading
for anyone interested in the history of travel, colonial writing,
and racial politics at the time of the first British Empire.
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