Die Entzauberung Asiens: Europa und die asiatischen Reiche im 18. Jahrhundert by Jürgen Osterhammel © Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, München 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Osterhammel, Jürgen, author.
Title: Unfabling the East : the Enlightenment’s encounter with Asia / Jürgen Osterhammel ; translated by Robert Savage.
Other titles: Die Entzauberung Asiens. English
Description: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017039097 | ISBN 9780691172729 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Asia—Foreign public opinion, European. | Asia—Civilization—Public opinion. | Public opinion—Europe. | Asia—Description and travel. | Asia—Relations—Europe. | Europe—Relations—Asia.
Classification: LCC DS33.4.E85 O7513 2018 | DDC 303.3/8095—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017039097
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The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International—Translation Funding for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT, and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association).
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