| The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age Contributor(s): Kiernan, Victor (Author), Trumpbour, John (Foreword by), Hobsbawm, Eric (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1783604298 ISBN-13: 9781783604296 Publisher: Zed Books OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 325.34 |
| Series: Critique. Influence. Change |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (1.35 lbs) 392 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous. Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of diplomats' wives, explorers' diaries and the work of writers as diverse as Voltaire, Thackeray, Oliver Goldsmith and, of course, Kipling - Victor Kiernan teases out the full range of European attitudes to other peoples. Erudite, ironic and global in its scope, The Lords of Human Kind has been a major influence on a generation of historians and cultural critics and is a landmark in the history of Eurocentrism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kiernan, Victor: - Victor Kiernan (1913-2009) was one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the author of The Lords of Human Kind, European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, and Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen, among many others. |
