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This book reinterprets the rise of consumerism in terms of interaction between Europe and China 1400-1800. In particular, it examines the intellectual foundatio
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Artistic and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900
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Traditionally, relations between Europe and Asia have been studied in a hegemonic perspective, with Europe as the dominant political and economic centre. This b
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The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730
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A 2006 investigation of the idea of the powerful Asian empires in the works of Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift.