Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510

Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151 9780812208948

Drawing on medieval accounts of the earliest European journeys to China, India, Mongolia, and southeast Asia, Before Ori

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Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing 2020039873, 9780367653903, 9781003129240

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Writing Travel in Central Asian History 0253011353, 9780253011350

For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholar

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Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies 9781474289733, 9781474289764, 9781474289757

Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies analyses the role of religion in past and present understandings of Asia. Reli

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Orientations: An Anthology of European Travel Writing on Europe 9786155211768

Excerpts from over 100 travel writings of Europe, from 16th c. pilgrimage diaries thru early specimens of modern tourism

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A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe 9789633863893

The bibliography volume of the three-volume East Looks West: East European Travel Writing in Europe collates travel writ

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Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing [Course Book ed.] 9781400861330

Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, philosophers, scientists, and anthropologists--from the eighteenth-c

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Peoples, Cultures and Nations in Political Philosophy 9780585441696

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748610914); Wars of national secession and ethnic cleansing have disfigure

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Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem 9780755611744

The oppressed yet highly sexualized woman of the Muslim harem is arguably the pivotal figure of Western orientalism. Yet

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German Travel Cultures 9781350050754, 9781859734513

Travel guidebooks are an important part of contemporary culture, but we know relatively little about their history and i

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