Europeans in the World Volume Two: Sources on Cultural Contact from 1650 to the Present

Lehning, James R.; Armstrong, Megan

ISBN 10: 0130912603 / ISBN 13: 9780130912602

Published by Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002

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Text clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers. 278 pages. Illustrated.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Europeans in the World Volume Two: Sources on Cultural Contact from 1650 to the Present
• Publisher: Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130912603
• ISBN 13: 9780130912602
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This reader focuses on the relations between European civilization and the rest of the world. It chronologically organizes material from antiquity to the present. It presents excerpts from primary source texts, written documents, and visual images, and pays particular attention to providing materials that reflect a diverse set of experiences. Themes such as politics, gender, religion, and ethnicity in non-European parts of the world enable students to place European history in its larger global context.

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Europeans in the World is a primary-source reader that focuses on the relations between European civilization and the rest of the world. It covers chronologically, in two volumes, the period from antiquity to the late twentieth century. Excerpts from written documents and visual images provide multiple perspectives on the ways in which Europeans interacted with people and civilizations from other parts of the world. The texts presented here examine politics, gender, religion, and ethnicity. The readings include not only such standard accounts as Travels of Marco Polo and J. A. Hobson's Imperialism, but also accounts by missionaries such as William of Rubruck (The Mongol Mission) and Matteo Ricci (Journals), unusual European travelers such as Mary Kingsley (Travels in West Africa), and by colonial subjects such as Mohandas K. Gandhi (Hind Swaraj).