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Kowner Rotem |
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From white to yellow : the Japanese in European racial thought, 1300-1735 / / Rotem Kowner |
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Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-7735-4455-0 |
0-7735-9684-4 |
0-7735-9683-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxv, 678 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas ; ; 63 |
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Soggetti |
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Race - Social aspects - Europe - History |
Public opinion - Europe - History |
Japan Foreign public opinion, European History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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When Europeans landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions |
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