Asian Travel in the Renaissance (Renaissance Studies Special Issues)
Book Details
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN1405111607
ISBN-139781405111607
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Asian Travel in the Renaissance looks at travel in Asia for the purposes of trade, colonialism and religious conversion by a diverse array of Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and English protagonists in the Renaissance era.
- Examines European travel in Asia from a variety of perspectives.
- Presents new research by international scholars.
- Establishes the importance of Asia as a place of aspiration in the early modern period.
