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<br>Before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later eighteenth century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? <em>Orientalism in Louis XIV's France</em> presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, revealing the prominence within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India. The Orientalist writers studied here produced books that would become sources used throughout the eighteenth century. Nicholas Dew places these scholars in their own context as members of the republic of letters in the age of the scientific revolution and the early Enlightenment.

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Author

Nicholas Dew

Publisher

Oxford University Press; OUP Oxford

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191570797

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Humanities