The Rise Of Oriental Travel
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Author |
: G. Maclean |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2004-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230511767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230511767 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise of Oriental Travel by : G. Maclean
This book follows four Seventeenth-century Englishmen on their journeys around the Ottoman Empire while the British were, for the first time in history, becoming important players in the Mediterranean. This book shows that hostility between East and West is neither historical nor inevitable, but rather the result of selective memory.
Author |
: Gerald M. MacLean |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1232086462 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise of Oriental Travel by : Gerald M. MacLean
Author |
: Kumkum Chatterjee |
Publisher |
: Associated University Presse |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0838756948 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780838756942 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Europe Observed by : Kumkum Chatterjee
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.
Author |
: John Dos Passos |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 1927 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015008261441 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Orient Express by : John Dos Passos
The journal of the author on a trip through Russia and the Levant (the eastern Mediterranean, including Syria and Lebanon), published in 1927.
Author |
: Xiaolin Duan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0295747129 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780295747125 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise of West Lake by : Xiaolin Duan
"West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China's east coast, has been a major tourist site since the twelfth century and a model for idealized nature. Visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and celebrate it in poetry and painting. Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between cultural norms and the natural environment around West Lake during the Song dynasty (960-1279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou in 1127, making the area the national political and cultural center. Duan shows how leisure activities in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors' conceptualization of nature and sparked the emergence of the lake as a tourist destination, and how the natural landscape played an active role in shaping social pursuits and cultural constructs. Incorporating evidence from miscellanies, local and temple gazetteers, paintings, maps, poems, and anecdotes, she explores the complexity of the lake as an interactive site where ecological and economic concerns contended and where spiritual pursuits overlapped with aesthetic ones. The book will appeal to readers interested in urban and environmental history, cultural geography, and the sociology of tourism"--
Author |
: Edward W. Said |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2014-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804153867 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804153868 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Orientalism by : Edward W. Said
A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.
Author |
: Kim M. Phillips |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2013-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812208948 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812208943 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Before Orientalism by : Kim M. Phillips
A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more than twenty Europeans who made—or claimed to have made—journeys to Mongolia, China, India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia between the mid-thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Kim Phillips reconstructs a medieval European vision of Asia that was by turns critical, neutral, and admiring. In offering a cultural history of the encounter between medieval Latin Christians and the distant East, Before Orientalism reveals how Europeans' prevailing preoccupations with food and eating habits, gender roles, sexualities, civility, and the foreign body helped shape their perceptions of Asian peoples and societies. Phillips gives particular attention to the texts' known or likely audiences, the cultural settings within which they found a foothold, and the broader impact of their descriptions, while also considering the motivations of their writers. She reveals in rich detail responses from European travelers that ranged from pragmatism to wonder. Fear of military might, admiration for high standards of civic life and court culture, and even delight in foreign magnificence rarely assumed the kind of secular Eurocentric superiority that would later characterize Orientalism. Placing medieval writing on the East in the context of an emergent "Europe" whose explorers sought to learn more than to rule, Before Orientalism complicates our understanding of medieval attitudes toward the foreign.
Author |
: Mchugh Fionnuala |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2016-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 161428458X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781614284581 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Mandarin Oriental by : Mchugh Fionnuala
In 1985 the iconic Mandarin Hotel in Hong Kong and the elegant Oriental in Bangkok joined together to form the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. This marriage between two titans of the East gave rise to one of the most iconic names in international luxury. Assouline's Mandarin Oriental celebrates its brilliant legacy with a slipcase edition that shares the group's rich history with archival photographs from the original hotels and sumptuous details of the most recent additions to the collection, making it a must for any fan of travel and luxury. For each Mandarin Oriental hotel, there is a fan. Classically simple, visually elegant, and indisputably part of the orient, the fan logo was born in the mid-1980s, when Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group launched on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Today, each hotel has a unique fan, which reflects the individuality of the property and the culture of its location, from Guangzhou and New York's original fans designed by acclaimed fashion designer Vivienne Tam to Taipei and Geneva's 19th-century antiques. Mandarin Oriental's Fans, including Grammy Award-winning opera singer Cecilia Bartoli, Academy Award¬-winning actor Kevin Spacey, renowned architect I.M. Pei, heads of state, and world travelers cherish the impeccable service, innovative and refined cuisine, elegant design, opulent spas, and welcoming smiles that greet them each time they visit. Tradition and innovation fuse seamlessly in each hotel, where luxury meets comfort. From Tokyo to New York to London, each hotel offers a unique expression of the Mandarin Oriental spirit.
Author |
: Efterpi Mitsi |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2017-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319626123 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319626124 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596–1682 by : Efterpi Mitsi
This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the Ottoman Empire. Through these early encounters, this book analyzes the travelers’ construction of Greece in the early modern Mediterranean world and shows how travel became a means of collecting and disseminating knowledge about ancient sites. Focusing on the mobility and exchange of people, artifacts, texts, and opinions between the two countries, it argues that the presence of Britons in Greece and of Greeks in England aroused interest not only in Hellenic antiquity, but also in Greece’s contemporary geopolitical role. Exploring myth, perception, and trope with clarity and precision, this book offers new insight into the connections between Greece, the Ottoman Empire, and the West.
Author |
: Florence D'Souza |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 383 |
Release |
: 2015-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784992088 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784992089 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Knowledge, mediation and empire by : Florence D'Souza
This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782–1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818–22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.