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Orientalism in Louis XIV's France

by (author) Nicholas Dew

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2009
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780199234844
    Publish Date
    Sep 2009
    List Price
    $215.00

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Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize

Before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later eighteenth century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, mapping the place 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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Contributor Notes

Nicholas Dew is Assistant Professor of History at McGill University, in Montreal. He is the co-editor, with James Delbourgo, of Science and Empire in the Atlantic World (Routledge, 2008).