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Titolo |
Two missionary accounts of Southeast Asia in the late seventeenth century : a translation and critical edition of Guy Tachard's Relation de Voyage aux Indes (1690–99) and Nicola Cima's Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino, e Cocincina (1697-1706) / / edited and translated by Stefan Halikowski Smith [[electronic resource]] |
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Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Connected histories in the early modern world |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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TachardGuy <1651-1712.> |
CimaNicola |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Southeast Asia Description and travel Early works to 1800 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Jan 2021). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Acknowledgements and Aids to Research -- Brief Chronology of the Lives and Movements of Guy Tachard s.j. (1651-1712) and Nicola Agustin Cima o.e.s.a. (1650-1722) -- Introduction -- PART ONE: PRESENTATION OF GUY TACHARD s.j., RELATION DE VOYAGE AUX INDES (1690-99) -- The Relation de Voyage aux Indes (1690-99) -- Guy Tachard, A Travel Account to the Indies (Relation de Voyage aux Indes) 1690-99 -- PART TWO: PRESENTATION OF NICOLA CIMA, o.e.s.a. RELATIONE DISTINTA DELLI REGNI DI SIAM, CHINA, TUNCHINO, E COCINCINA (CA. 1707) -- The Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino, e Cocincina -- The Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino, e Cocincina -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume presents critical editions of two previously unpublished missionary accounts of Ayutthaya and the East Indies scene after the 'National' Revolution of 1688 in Thailand: 'Relation de Voyage aux Indes', 1690-99, by Guy Tachard, a French Jesuit; and 'Relatione Distinta delli Regni di Siam, China, Tunchino e Cocincina' (ca. 1707), by Nicola Cima, an Italian Augustinian. These interesting, substantial texts tell us a lot both about the Europeans who were writing them, and about Southeast Asia in a period when information was in much shorter |
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supply than prior to 1688. |
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