The lords of human kind European attitudes to the other cultures in the imperial age
First published in 1969, and a major influence on a generation of historians and cultural critics, Victor Kiernan's The Lords of Human Kind reveals the full range of those responses. Drawing on a wide array of sources, including missionaries' memoirs, letters from the wives of diplomats, e...
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| Language: | English |
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London
Zed Books
[2015]
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| Series: | Critique influence change
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| Summary: | First published in 1969, and a major influence on a generation of historians and cultural critics, Victor Kiernan's The Lords of Human Kind reveals the full range of those responses. Drawing on a wide array of sources, including missionaries' memoirs, letters from the wives of diplomats, explorers' diaries, and the work of writers as diverse as Voltaire, Thackeray, Goldsmith, and Kipling, Kiernan presents a sweeping account of European attitudes to other peoples that emerged from the Age of Exploration, endured through the colonial era, and, with some changes, persist in today's more multicultural Europe. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxvi, 354 pages 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781783604296 9781783604302 (pdf) 9781783604319 (epub) 9781783604326 (mobi) |