The Rise of Oriental Travel

副标题: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720

ISBN: 9780230003262

出版社: Palgrave Macmillan

出版年: 2004-8-8

页数: 267

定价: USD 40.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

The Rise of Oriental Travel follows four Seventeenth-century Englishmen on their journeys around the Ottoman Empire while it was still expanding westward and the British were, for the first time in history, becoming important players in the Mediterranean. Contrary to the hostile declamations of Protestant preachers, they all found much to admire, from the multi-culturalism of the Ottoman system to the food, weather and styles of life. This book shows that hostility between East and West is neither historical nor inevitable, but rather the result of selective memory.