Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels
Abstract The second edition of Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is significantly revised and expanded, twenty years after the first edition helped to establish the field of travel and colonial writing in English. The anthology includes substantial new chapters of extracts on ‘The North’, detailing t...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780198871552.001.0001 2023-05-15T15:13:57+02:00 Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology Dimmock, Matthew Hadfield, Andrew 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871552.001.0001 unknown Oxford University PressOxford ISBN 0198871554 9780198871552 9780191914430 edited-book 2022 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871552.001.0001 2023-01-27T10:52:36Z Abstract The second edition of Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is significantly revised and expanded, twenty years after the first edition helped to establish the field of travel and colonial writing in English. The anthology includes substantial new chapters of extracts on ‘The North’, detailing the important Arctic voyages and the search for the elusive North-West Passage to China; ‘Islamic West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean’ includes new material on Persia, Russia, and Jerusalem; ‘England from Elsewhere’ includes observations of England and the English from European travellers; and an epilogue on women travellers explores the importance in particular of Lady Catherine Whetenhall’s journey to Italy, recorded after her early death. The chapter on Africa includes new material on the Congo, Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and the chapter on East Asia and the South Seas contains new material on China and Japan. There are new images of West African figures and Sir Anthony and Lady Sherley in Persian courtly attire. The introduction has been carefully revised to take into account the wealth of scholarship on English perceptions of Asia and the Mediterranean, and the analysis of race and racial identity has been expanded in line with contemporary concerns. Headnotes and notes have been revised and expanded throughout the text. The anthology is the most comprehensive single-volume available in English, and, with its newly modernized text and reader-friendly apparatus, is designed to appeal to the general as well as the specialist reader. No one interested in the history of travel, colonial writing, and racial politics at the time of the first British Empire can ignore this work. Book Arctic North West Passage Oxford University Press (via Crossref) Arctic |
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Abstract The second edition of Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is significantly revised and expanded, twenty years after the first edition helped to establish the field of travel and colonial writing in English. The anthology includes substantial new chapters of extracts on ‘The North’, detailing the important Arctic voyages and the search for the elusive North-West Passage to China; ‘Islamic West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean’ includes new material on Persia, Russia, and Jerusalem; ‘England from Elsewhere’ includes observations of England and the English from European travellers; and an epilogue on women travellers explores the importance in particular of Lady Catherine Whetenhall’s journey to Italy, recorded after her early death. The chapter on Africa includes new material on the Congo, Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and the chapter on East Asia and the South Seas contains new material on China and Japan. There are new images of West African figures and Sir Anthony and Lady Sherley in Persian courtly attire. The introduction has been carefully revised to take into account the wealth of scholarship on English perceptions of Asia and the Mediterranean, and the analysis of race and racial identity has been expanded in line with contemporary concerns. Headnotes and notes have been revised and expanded throughout the text. The anthology is the most comprehensive single-volume available in English, and, with its newly modernized text and reader-friendly apparatus, is designed to appeal to the general as well as the specialist reader. No one interested in the history of travel, colonial writing, and racial politics at the time of the first British Empire can ignore this work. |
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