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Book Synopsis Engelbert Kaempfer 1650-1716 by : Detlef Haberland
Download or read book Engelbert Kaempfer 1650-1716 written by Detlef Haberland and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unpublished papers of 17th century traveller Engelbert Kaempfer were acquired by Sir Hans Sloane, and became part of the foundation collections of the British Museum. This award-winning biography tells the story of Kaempfer's journeys in Japan, which gave the first accurate descriptions of that country, its people and culture. A qualified physician who spoke several languages, he became a master draughtsman, and was a pioneer in many fields of study, from Persian archaeology to Japanese history, and from cartography to botany and medicine. The book is illustrated with Kaempfer's own drawings and other contemporary material.
Book Synopsis Engelbert Kaempfer 1650-1716 by : Detlef Haberland
Download or read book Engelbert Kaempfer 1650-1716 written by Detlef Haberland and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unpublished papers of 17th century traveller Engelbert Kaempfer were acquired by Sir Hans Sloane, and became part of the foundation collections of the British Museum. This award-winning biography tells the story of Kaempfer's journeys in Japan, which gave the first accurate descriptions of that country, its people and culture. A qualified physician who spoke several languages, he became a master draughtsman, and was a pioneer in many fields of study, from Persian archaeology to Japanese history, and from cartography to botany and medicine. The book is illustrated with Kaempfer's own drawings and other contemporary material.
Book Synopsis European Physico-Theology (1650-C. 1760) in Context by : Kaspar von Greyerz
Download or read book European Physico-Theology (1650-C. 1760) in Context written by Kaspar von Greyerz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward recognising God as Creator, demonstrating the compatibility of the biblical record with new science. This is an English-language monograph which studies the impact of physico-theology on the intellectual and socio-cultural establishment in Europe from the mid-17th century.--
Book Synopsis Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) by : Detlef Haberland
Download or read book Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) written by Detlef Haberland and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wohl kaum ein anderer deutscher Reisender des 17. Jahrhunderts hat so viel Aufmerksamkeit auf sich gezogen wie Engelbert Kaempfer; und dies, obwohl das Werk dieses bedeutenden Vertreters einer im Humanismus wurzelnden und zugleich zukunftsweisenden Wissenschaftskultur bis heute nicht vollstandig bekannt ist. Die elf in diesem Band versammelten Untersuchungen ganz verschiedener Fachrichtungen beschaftigen sich mit dem Werk selbst, betrachten die Texte in ihrem entstehungs- und textgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang und analysieren sie zugleich im Kontext der Gattungen, der zeitgenossischen Arbeiten botanischer, medizinischer, landeskundlicher und geographischer Art.Aus dem Inhalt (11 Beitrage): J. Hoock, Imago Mundi. Weltbildwandel am Ende des 17. und zu Beginn des 18. JahrhundertsK.A. Neuhausen, Engelbertus Kaempfer als lateinischer Prosaautor. Zum Sprachstil und literarischen Rang der Amoenitates Exoticae (1712)N. Buttner, Reisebilder - Kunsthistorische Anmerkungen zu Engelbert Kaempfers Landschaftszeichnungen und zu den Illustrationen seiner gedruckten WerkeD. Haberland, Zwischen Humanismus und Humboldt: Landeskundliches und topographisches Denken bei Engelbert Kaempfe
Download or read book Bernhard Varenius (1622-1650) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernhard Varenius’ books influenced the history of science in such a way that Isaac Newton, Alexander von Humboldt and Tsar Peter the Great all referred to him. Varenius wrote the first comprehensive description of Japan (Descriptio regni Japoniae, 1649) from a European perspective, exclusively based on a diversity of sources. But the impact of his Geographia generalis (1650) explains his ranking among the founding fathers of geography as a science. He called ‘general’ geography a branch of (applied) mathematics which does not deal with regional specifics. The contributions in this book focus on his multi-faceted work, the influence of his books and the tragically short life of this young polymath from Germany who benefited from the intellectually stimulating milieu of Leiden and Amsterdam. Contributors include: Horst Walter Blanke, Reinhard Düchting, Klaus Lehmann, Robert Mayhew, Sandra Rebok, Folker Reichert, Frank Richter, Margret Schuchard, Denis J.B. Shaw, Ulrich Staffhorst, Johann Anselm Steiger, Rienk H. Vermij, and Ernst-Christian Volkmann.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department by : Boston Public Library
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Companion to the Global Renaissance by : Jyotsna G. Singh
Download or read book A Companion to the Global Renaissance written by Jyotsna G. Singh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO THE GLOBAL RENAISSANCE An innovative collection of original essays providing an expansive picture of globalization across the early modern world, now in its second edition A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, Second Edition provides readers with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of both macro and micro perspectives on the commercial and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Covering a uniquely broad range of literary and cultural materials, historical contexts, and geographical regions, the Companion’s varied chapters offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the implications of early modern concepts of commerce, material and artistic culture, sexual and cross-racial encounters, conquest and enslavement, social, artistic, and religious cross-pollinations, geographical “discoveries,” and more. Building upon the success of its predecessor, this second edition of A Companion to the Global Renaissance radically extends its scope by moving beyond England and English culture. Newly-commissioned essays investigate intercultural and intra-cultural exchanges, transactions, and encounters involving England, European powers, Eastern kingdoms, Africa, Islamic empires, and the Americas, within cross-disciplinary frameworks. Offering a complex and multifaceted view of early modern globalization, this new edition: Demonstrates the continuing global “turn” in Early Modern Studies through original essays exploring interconnected exchanges, transactions, and encounters Provides significantly expanded coverage of global interactions involving England, European powers such as Portugal, Spain, and The Netherlands, Eastern empires such as Japan, and the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires Includes a Preface and Afterword, as well as a revised and expanded Introduction summarizing the evolving field of Global Early Modern Studies and describing the motifs and methodologies informing the essays within the volume Explores an array of new subjects, including an exceptional woman traveler in Eurasia, the Jesuit presence in Mughal India and sixteenth-century Japan, the influence of Mughal art on an Amsterdam painter-cum-poet, the cultural impact of Eastern trade on plays and entertainments in early modern London, Safavid cultural disseminations, English and Portuguese slaving practices, the global contexts of English pattern poetry, and global lyric transmissions across cultures A wide-ranging account of the global expansions and interactions of the period, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500–1700, Second Edition remains essential reading for early modern scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department in the Classes of History, Biography, and Travel, Including the Histories of Literature, Art, Sects, Etc., Politics, Geography, Voyages, Sketches, and Manners and Customs, Together with Notes for Readers Under Subject-references by : Boston Public Library
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department in the Classes of History, Biography, and Travel, Including the Histories of Literature, Art, Sects, Etc., Politics, Geography, Voyages, Sketches, and Manners and Customs, Together with Notes for Readers Under Subject-references written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Books, Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department in the Classes of History, Biography and Travel, Etc. 2. ... Ed by : BOSTON, Massachusetts. Public Library
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books, Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department in the Classes of History, Biography and Travel, Etc. 2. ... Ed written by BOSTON, Massachusetts. Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) by : Christopher Joby
Download or read book The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) written by Christopher Joby and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900) Christopher Joby offers the first book-length account of the knowledge and use of the Dutch language in Tokugawa and early Meiji Japan, which had a profound effect on Japan’s language, society and culture.
Book Synopsis “A” Catalogue of Books by : Justin Winsor
Download or read book “A” Catalogue of Books written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To My Dear Pieternelletje by : Bea Brommer
Download or read book To My Dear Pieternelletje written by Bea Brommer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To my dear Pieternelletje describes a ten-year period in the lives of Pieternella van Hoorn and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Eleven years old, Pieternella left for Amsterdam and the only contact possible was by mail. Numerous letters have survived and combined with contemporaneous documents, most of them never published before, they offer a vivid and clear picture of their private life and feelings, forming a most welcome addition to official VOC-history. Van Outhoorn not only acted as Pieternella’s mentor while she tried to adjust to her new but unknown fatherland, but also sent her numerous exquisite presents, the greater part of which has been traced and described in full, thus offering new insight in the cultural history of Asia.
Book Synopsis All about Tea by : William Harrison Ukers
Download or read book All about Tea written by William Harrison Ukers and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis South Asia by : Donald Frederick Lach
Download or read book South Asia written by Donald Frederick Lach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kaempfer's Japan by : Engelbert Kaempfer
Download or read book Kaempfer's Japan written by Engelbert Kaempfer and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan was a best-seller from the moment it was published in London in 1727. Born in Westphalia in 1651, Kaempfer traveled throughout the Near and Far East before settling in Japan as physician to the trading settlement of the Dutch East India Company at Nagasaki. During his two years residence, he made two extensive trips around Japan in 1691 and 1692, collecting, according to the British historian Boxer, "an astonishing amount of valuable and accurate information." He also learned all he could from the few Japanese who came to Deshima for instruction in the European sciences. To these observations, Kaempfer added details he had gathered from a wide reading of travelers' accounts and the reports of previous trading delegations. The result was the first scholarly study of Tokugawa Japan in the West, a work that greatly influenced the European view of Japan throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, serving as a reference for a variety of works ranging from encyclopedias to the libretto of "The Mikado." Kaempfer's work remains one of the most valuable sources for historians of the Tokugawa period. The narrative describes what no Japanese was permitted to record (the details of the shogun's castle, for example) and what no Japanese thought worthy of recording (the minutiae of everyday life). However, all previous translations of the History are flawed, being based on the work of an eighteenth-century Swiss translator or that of the German editor some fifty years later who had little knowledge of Japan and resented Kaempfer's praise of the heathen country. Beatrice Bodart-Bailey's impressive new translation of this classic, which reflects careful study of Kaempfer's original manuscript, reclaims the work for the modern reader, placing it in the context of what is currently known about Tokugawa Japan and restoring the humor and freshness of Kaempfer's observations and impressions. In Kaempfer's Japan we have, for the first time, an accurate and thoroughly readable annotated translation of Kaempfer's colorful account of pre-modern Japan.
Book Synopsis From White to Yellow by : Rotem Kowner
Download or read book From White to Yellow written by Rotem Kowner and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. Accounting for this dramatic transformation, From White to Yellow is a groundbreaking study of the evolution of European interpretations of the Japanese and the emergence of discourses about race in early modern Europe. Transcending the conventional focus on Africans and Jews within the rise of modern racism, Rotem Kowner demonstrates that the invention of race did not emerge in a vacuum in eighteenth-century Europe, but rather was a direct product of earlier discourses of the "Other." This compelling study indicates that the racial discourse on the Japanese, alongside the Chinese, played a major role in the rise of the modern concept of race. While challenging Europe's self-possession and sense of centrality, the discourse delayed the eventual consolidation of a hierarchical worldview in which Europeans stood immutably at the apex. Drawing from a vast array of primary sources, From White to Yellow traces the racial roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West.
Book Synopsis Explorations and Entanglements by : Hartmut Berghoff
Download or read book Explorations and Entanglements written by Hartmut Berghoff and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific’s overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
