First globalization
Subtitle: the Eurasian exchange, 1500 to 1800
By: Geoffrey C. Gunn.
Series: World social change
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: East and West; Europe -- Relations -- Asia; Asia -- Relations -- Europe; Europe -- Civilization -- Oriental influences; Asia -- Foreign public opinion, Western
Description: "First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his metageography of the vast Eurasian zone, Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language, play, crime and punishment, gender, and governance, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and creolization of cultures."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-323) and index.