Europe Observed: Multiple Gazes in Early Modern Encounters by Hans-Juergen Luesebrink, Nancy Shoemaker, Kumkum Chatterjee, R. Po-chia Hsia, Suzanne Preston Blier, Vincent Carretta, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Irene Silverblatt, Nabil Matar, Michael Fisher

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Europe Observed: Multiple Gazes in Early Modern Encounters

Hans-Juergen Luesebrink, Nancy Shoemaker, Kumkum Chatterjee, R. Po-chia Hsia, Suzanne Preston Blier, Vincent Carretta, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Irene Silverblatt, Nabil Matar, Michael Fisher with Clement Hawes

279 pages • paperback • first pub 2008 • 2 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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This interdisciplinary Work engages with the issue of how Europe and Europeans were perceived by observers from various parts of the world during the early modern period. It seeks thereby to redress the asymmetry in scholarship whereby European vi...