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Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the
social and the economic during a period of fundamental change
across Asia. They challenge accepted explanations of how Western
knowledge spread through Asia and show how versatile Asian
intellectuals were in introducing European concepts and in blending
them with local traditions.
This book adopts a historical perspective to explore the tensions
between the idea of a European democracy through a European market,
and the observations that there are signs of increasing social
disintegration, political extremism and populism in the wake of
economic integration.
First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
In the 19th century, the metropolis became the soothsayer of
societies. Here, probabilities of progress could be perceived, felt
and smelt; here was the showcase of each nation's prime productions
and representations. Travellers took to the metropolis in order to
unravel the foreign society, in order to understand and learn about
social characteristics and future developments, about cultural
distinctions and commonalities, about banalities and extraordinary
events. Travel writers mapped the development of Europe's
metropolises and wrote for a large market using the form of a
highly popular and established genre. In travel writing, popular
sentiments, market-driven imaginations of the audience's interests,
and on-the-spot analysis of cultural and political conditions are
bound together in one account. This book surveys the history of
cultural perception in Western Europe from the Great Exhibition of
1851 to the National Socialists' party rallies in the Berlin of the
1930s. Travel writings are used as source material to enter the
intricate discourses on national stereotypes, the metropolis and on
the usage as well as the perception of authenticity.
This volume is a collection of contributions about the history and
practice of travel and travel writing from a variety of academic
disciplines including anthropology, history, linguistics and
literary criticism. It brings together scholars from over ten
different countries and reflects on what travel is and how travel
writings function. It traces the history of travel and travel
writing and the notion or idea of a European civilisation that
permeates performances and perceptions. The notion of Europe
appears as a set of quality standards as well as guidelines for
experiences against which civilisations are measured. This set of
standards and guidelines, however, is far from stable. It is a
floating foundation carrying different versions of Europe
throughout time. The authors tackle the problem from different
angles: travels from Europe across the seven oceans transported the
idea of European civilisation just as travels to Europe or within
Europe. The volume explores the different meanings attached to the
term 'Europe' and 'civilisation' throughout history and shows how
different political or cultural contexts affect the notion of what
Europe is or should be.
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