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Author:

Kowner, Rotem, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97053367

Title:

From white to yellow : the Japanese in European racial thought, 1300-1735 / Rotem Kowner.

Publisher:

McGill-Queen's University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxv, 678 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Japan--History.--History.
Public opinion--Europe--History.
Race--History.--Europe--History.
Racism--Europe--History.
Europe--History.--History.
Japan--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Japan--Description and travel.
Public opinion.
Public opinion, European.
Race relations.
Race--Social aspects.
Racism.
Europe.
Japan.
History.

Notes:

"Legal deposit fourth quarter 2014"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-615) and index.

Contents:

Phase One. Speculation : Pre-Encounter Knowledge of the Japanese (1300-1543). 1. The emergence of "Cipangu" and its precursory ethnography ; 2. The "Cipanguese" at the opening of the age of discovery -- Phase Two. Observation : A Burgeoning Discourse of Initial Encounters (1543-1640). 3. Initial observations of the Japanese ; 4. The Japanese position in contemporary hierarchies ; 5. Concrete mirrors of a new human order ; 6. "Race" and its cognitive limits during the phase of observation -- Phase Three. Reconsideration : Antecendents of a Mature Discourse (1640-1735). 7. Dutch reappraisal of the Japanese body and origins ; 8. Power, status, and the Japanese position in the global order ; 9. In search of a new taxonomy : botany, medicine, and the Japanese ; 10. "Race" and its perceptual limits during the phase of reconsideration -- Conclusion : The discourse of race in early modern Europe and the Japanese case.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 63

ISBN:

0773544550
9780773544550

OCLC:

(OCoLC)879528886

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)