Exploring European Frontiers [electronic resource] : British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment / by B. Dolan.

Dolan, B.
Exploring European Frontiers
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780230288980 978-0-230-28898-0
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/5036
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2000.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 237 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
The explorations of eighteenth-century travellers to the 'European frontiers' were often geared to define the cultural, political, and historical boundaries of 'European civilization.' In an age when political revolutions shocked nations into reassessing what separated the civilised from the barbaric, how did literary travellers contemplate the characteristics of their continental neighbours? Focusing on the writings of British travellers, we see how a new view of Europe was created, one that juxtaposed the customs and living conditions of populations in an attempt to define 'modern' Europe against a 'yet unenlightened' Europe.
Konu
Europe __ History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Engineering.
Life sciences.
Social sciences.
Humanities.
European History.
Modern History.
Social History.
Technology and Engineering.
Life Sciences.
Humanities and Social Sciences.