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Subject(s)

• Japan—Foreign public opinion, European—History [Browse]
• Public opinion—Europe—History [Browse]
• Race—Social aspects—Europe—History [Browse]
• Racism—Europe—History [Browse]
• Europe—Race relations—History [Browse]
• Japan—Description and travel—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Japan—Description and travel [Browse]

Series

• McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 63. [More in this series]
• McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 63 [More in this series]

Notes

"Legal deposit fourth quarter 2014"--Title page verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-615) and index.

Contents

• Phase One. Speculation : Pre-Encounter Knowledge of the Japanese (1300-1543). 1. The emergence of "Cipangu" and its precursory ethnography ; 2. The "Cipanguese" at the opening of the age of discovery
• Phase Two. Observation : A Burgeoning Discourse of Initial Encounters (1543-1640). 3. Initial observations of the Japanese ; 4. The Japanese position in contemporary hierarchies ; 5. Concrete mirrors of a new human order ; 6. "Race" and its cognitive limits during the phase of observation
• Phase Three. Reconsideration : Antecendents of a Mature Discourse (1640-1735). 7. Dutch reappraisal of the Japanese body and origins ; 8. Power, status, and the Japanese position in the global order ; 9. In search of a new taxonomy : botany, medicine, and the Japanese ; 10. "Race" and its perceptual limits during the phase of reconsideration
• Conclusion : The discourse of race in early modern Europe and the Japanese case.

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Other format(s)

Issued also in electronic format.

ISBN

• 9780773544543 ((cloth))
• 0773544542 ((cloth))
• 9780773544550 ((paper))
• 0773544550 ((paper))

OCLC

879528886

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