The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age by Kiernan, Victor
The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age by Kiernan, Victor

The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they...
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The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age by Kiernan, Victor

The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

$71.53
The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age by Kiernan, Victor

The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

$71.53
Author: Victor Kiernan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous.

Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of diplomats' wives, explorers' diaries and the work of writers as diverse as Voltaire, Thackeray, Oliver Goldsmith and, of course, Kipling - Victor Kiernan teases out the full range of European attitudes to other peoples. Erudite, ironic and global in its scope, The Lords of Human Kind has been a major influence on a generation of historians and cultural critics and is a landmark in the history of Eurocentrism.

Author: Victor Kiernan
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 03/15/2015
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781783604296

About the Author

Victor Kiernan (1913-2009) ranks among Britain's most distinguished historians. After a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a long period spent teaching in India, he joined the History Department at the University of Edinburgh, where he served as professor of modern history from 1970 until his retirement. Over the course of his life he authored such works as European Empires from Conquest to Collapse; The Duel in European History; Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen; Horace: Poetics and Politics and numerous others, as well as translating two volumes of Urdu poetry.
Victor Kiernan (1913-2009) ranks among Britain's most distinguished historians. After a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a long period spent teaching in India, he joined the History Department at the University of Edinburgh, where he served as professor of modern history from 1970 until his retirement. Over the course of his life he authored such works as European Empires from Conquest to Collapse; The Duel in European History; Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen; Horace: Poetics and Politics and numerous others, as well as translating two volumes of Urdu poetry.




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