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Travel Knowledge
Kamps, Ivo; Singh, Jyotsna G.
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Description for Travel Knowledge
Hardback. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 570.
Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism, the other, and the nation, but this is one of the first volumes on European travel in the early modern period. The essays further distinguish themselves by focusing not on the European discovery of the Americas, but on voyages to the east, and by allowing the voices of marginalized travelers to speak through history. This collection includes both critical ... Read more
Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism, the other, and the nation, but this is one of the first volumes on European travel in the early modern period. The essays further distinguish themselves by focusing not on the European discovery of the Americas, but on voyages to the east, and by allowing the voices of marginalized travelers to speak through history. This collection includes both critical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312222703
SKU
V9780312222703
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