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Why is an object, an artwork, or a person deemed ?exotic?? How does one?s gaze get directed onto things or people seemingly belonging to other regions or cultur
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Authors: Srinivas Aravamudan
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Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth ce
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Pages: 200
Authors: Piero Camporesi
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This is a concise and elegant account of the eating and drinking habits of the upper classes in the eighteenth century.
Strangers in the South Seas
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Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends o