The Lords of Human Kind
European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age
Eric Hobsbawm, John Trumpbour, Victor Kiernan
ISBN: | 9781783604319 |
Publisher: | Zed Books |
Published: | 12 February, 2015 |
Format: | eBook |
Links | Bloomsbury |
The Lords of Human Kind
European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age
Eric Hobsbawm, John Trumpbour, Victor Kiernan
When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous. Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of diplomats' wives, explorers' diaries and the work of writers as diverse as Voltaire, Thackeray, Oli
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