Travellers and Cosmographers

Travellers and Cosmographers

Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

by Joan-Pau Rubiés

428 pages· 2007· ISBN 9780754659365
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Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture towards the concerns of the Enlightenment. The studies include both general discussions and the contextual analysis of particular texts and debates, ranging form the earliest ethnographies produced by merchants travelling to Asia with Vasco da Gama, to the writings of Jesuit missionaries researching idolatry in India and China, or thinkers like Hugo Grotius seeking to explain the origin of the American Indians.

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