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The lords of human kind : European attitudes to other cultures in the Imperial Age /
A landmark work in the history of eurocentrism by one of Britain's most distinguished left-wing historians.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Serif,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; critique influence change; More Critical Praise; About The Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Prefatory Note ; A Tribute to Victor Kiernan; Foreword; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the 1995 Edition; 1. Introduction; The Oldest Europe and its Neighbours; The Late Middle Ages: Contraction and Expansion; The Shape of Modern Europe; Europe and the World: The Seventeenth-Century Interval; The Eighteenth-Century Outlook; The Nineteenth Century: World Domination; Notes; 2. India; Conquest and the Spoils; Impulses of Reform; British Isolation: Splendid or Perilous?
- The Mutiny and its EffectsRebuilding an Alien Power; Missionaries and Indian Religion; Imperfect Sympathies; Notes; 3. Other Colonies in Asia; The British in Ceylon; The British in Burma; The British in Malaya; The Netherlands East Indies; French Indochina; Russia in Asia; Notes; 4. The Islamic World; Turkey; Tourists in the Near East; Egypt and North Africa; Persia; The Oriental Scene: Despotism, Hubble-Bubble, Harem; Christianity and Islam; Notes; 5. The Far East; China: An Illusion Fading; Celestial Empire and Foreign Barbarian; Foreign Residents in China.
- Estimates of the Chinese CharacterGrowth of Chinese Xenophobia; The Yellow Peril; Korea, Tibet, Siam; The Opening of Japan; Western Opinions of the Japanese; Notes; 6. Africa; Africans in Europe; Africans in the Americas; The Slave Trade and its Suppression; Europeans in Western Africa; Europeans in Eastern Africa; Southern Africa: the Conflict of Races; Belgians and Germans; White Settlers; The 'Child-Races' and their Reaction; Notes; 7. The South Seas; Free Love on Tahiti; Decorum on the Lewchew Islands; White Savages and Brown in the Pacific; Missionary Influence and Western Rule.
- New Zealand and the MaorisAustralia and the Aborigines; Notes; 8. Latin America; Independence: White Man and Indian; Imitation Europe or New World?; Spanish America through European Eyes; Brazil and the Democracy of Races; Decadence and the Dictators; Notes; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Index; Back Cover.