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Asian Travel in the Renaissance
Daniel Carey (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1160-7
Paperback
256 pages
July 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors.

Preface: Anthony Reid.

1. Introduction: Daniel Carey.

2. Alessandro Valignano: Man, Missionary and Writer: M. Antoni J. Ucerler, Sj.

3. The Transmission of Renaissance Culture in Seventeenth-Century China: Nicolas Standaert.

4. The Widening of the World and the Realm of History: Early European Approaches to the Beginnings of Siamese History, c.1500-1700: Sven Trakulhun.

5. The Spanish Contribution to the Ethnology of Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Joan-Pau Rubiés.

6. A Truthful Pen and an Impartial Spirit”: Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola and the Conquista de las Islas Malucas: John Villiers.

7. "Wherever profit leads us, to every sea and shore...”: The VOC, the WIC, and Dutch Methods of Globalization in the Seventeenth Century: Claudia Schnurmann. 8. Riches, Power, Trade and Religion: The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1720: Robert Markley.

9. The Political Economy of Poison: The Kingdom of Makassar and the Early Royal Society: Daniel Carey.

Obituary – C.R. Boxer (1904-2000).

Index.