Author: John Larner
Publisher: Yale Nota Bene
Release Date: 1999
Size: 47.89 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Marco Polo And The Discovery Of The World

Book by John Larner, Marco Polo And The Discovery Of The World Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Marco Polo And The Discovery Of The World books, In this engaging and authoritative book, historian John Larner provides a fresh view of the enigmatic Marco Polo, who, despite a deliberate cultivation of impersonality, continues today to engage the attention of readers. 17 illustrations, 12 in color.

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Author: Susan Zannos
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Release Date: 2005-03
Size: 17.32 MB
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Life And Times Of Marco Polo

Book by Susan Zannos, The Life And Times Of Marco Polo Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Life And Times Of Marco Polo books, Marco Polo, the first European to travel to China and return to write about his adventures, was born in Venice in 1254. Marco's father had left on a journey to Asia before the boy was born. Marco did not see his father and uncle, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, until fifteen years later. In 1271 the three Polos left Venice and headed for the court of Kublai Khan in eastern China. The journey took them more than three years—they arrived in 1275. Marco Polo became a favorite of the Great Khan, and was sent on important missions all over the Mongol Empire. Marco and his father and uncle served Kublai Khan for 17 years. When they returned to Venice in 1295, Marco became the captain of a merchant ship and was captured and imprisoned in Genoa. While in prison he and another prisoner who was a writer of romances wrote the story of Marco Polo's adventures.

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Author: Jack Weatherford
Publisher: Broadway Books
Release Date: 2005-03-22
Size: 45.85 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World

Book by Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World books, New York Times Bestseller • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote cornerof the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age. The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.

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Release Date: 1892
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The Discovery Of America

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Author: Peter C. Mancall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 2006
Size: 44.70 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
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Travel Narratives From The Age Of Discovery

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Author: Rotem Kowner
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date: 2014-12-01
Size: 33.59 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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From White To Yellow

Book by Rotem Kowner, From White To Yellow Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download From White To Yellow books, When Europeans first landed in Japan they encountered people they perceived as white-skinned and highly civilized, but these impressions did not endure. Gradually the Europeans' positive impressions faded away and Japanese were seen as yellow-skinned and relatively inferior. Accounting for this dramatic transformation, From White to Yellow is a groundbreaking study of the evolution of European interpretations of the Japanese and the emergence of discourses about race in early modern Europe. Transcending the conventional focus on Africans and Jews within the rise of modern racism, Rotem Kowner demonstrates that the invention of race did not emerge in a vacuum in eighteenth-century Europe, but rather was a direct product of earlier discourses of the "Other." This compelling study indicates that the racial discourse on the Japanese, alongside the Chinese, played a major role in the rise of the modern concept of race. While challenging Europe's self-possession and sense of centrality, the discourse delayed the eventual consolidation of a hierarchical worldview in which Europeans stood immutably at the apex. Drawing from a vast array of primary sources, From White to Yellow traces the racial roots of the modern clash between Japan and the West.

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Author: Simon Gaunt
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date: 2013
Size: 54.57 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Marco Polo S Le Devisement Du Monde

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Author: George Collingridge
Publisher: Sydney, Hayes
Release Date: 1895
Size: 64.70 MB
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Category : Australasia
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Pages : 376
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The Discovery Of Australia

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Author: William Burgwinkle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2011-02-24
Size: 55.67 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
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The Cambridge History Of French Literature

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Author: Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date: 1981-01-01
Size: 62.32 MB
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Category : History
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Pages : 538
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The World Encompassed

Book by Geoffrey Vaughn Scammell, The World Encompassed Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The World Encompassed books, A study of European exploration and colonization includes examinations of the expansion of the English, Spanish, Dutch, French, and Portuguese empires

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