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  • Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture

    Mediation, Transmission, Traffic, 1550–1700

    par Gitanjali Shahani ...
    With its emphasis on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection of essays takes the messenger figure as a focal point for the discussion of transnational exchange and intercourse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It sees the emissary as embodying the processes of representation and ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

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    The World in Motion

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    A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN TIME: Discover surprising stories of the pioneering men and women who ushered the world toward modernity in this continent-spanning slice of world history.Features 140 full-color reproductions of period artwork, engravings, maps, and drawings, with fascinating sidebars throughout.The early 17th century was a time of enormous change in most regions of the world. The advent of ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The West

    A New History in Fourteen Lives

    par Naoíse Mac Sweeney ...
    **“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”—Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk RoadsPrize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western Civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Enlightenment Orientalism

    Resisting the Rise of the Novel

    par Srinivas Aravamudan ...
    Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of ... En savoir plus

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  • Three Ways to Be Alien

    Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World

    par Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    Collections series The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
    Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a “Persian” prince of Bijapur (in central India, no less) held hostage by the Portuguese at Goa; English traveler and global schemer Anthony Sherley, whose ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

    par Nabil Matar ...
    During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Europe’s India

    Words, People, Empires, 1500–1800

    par Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas. Traders were joined by ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars from Portugal, England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany, all ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

    Modifié par Carl Thompson ...
    Collections series Routledge Literature Companions
    As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race

    Modifié par Ayanna Thompson ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Othello's Secret

    The Cyprus Problem

    par R M Christofides ...
    Collections series Shakespeare Now!
    Othello's Secret uncovers the relationship between the play and the conflicts that have torn apart its Cypriot setting, providing a new and powerfully political reading. Exploring the domestic and military anxieties connected by Shakespeare, Christofides highlights the ways in which these issues resonate with current ideological and geographical divisions in Cyprus, divisions rooted in the 16th ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

    par Nabil Matar ...
    During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

    par Ayanna Thompson ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows that an analysis of the conjoined performances of torture and race not only reveals the early modern interest in the nature of racial identity, but also how race was initially coded in a paradoxical fashion as both essentially fixed ... En savoir plus

    $97.99 CAD