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Author:   Guido Abbattista
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367467920

ISBN 10:   0367467925
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   23 September 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction 1. ‘Reason of State’ and Universal History: Boccalini and Botero 2. The Idea of Ottoman Despotism in the Relazioni of the Venetian Ambassadors 3. The Turkish Enemy and the Eastern European Space in Giambattista Vico’s Deeds of Antonio Carafa 4.From the Americas to Rome: Paths of Knowledge Among the Roman Curia During the Seventeenth Century 5. Confronting Nationalities: Italian Jesuits in China in the late Seventeenth Century 6. Italian Intermediation and Knowledge of The Languages and Cultures Of India: The Narrative Practices Regarding the ‘Other’ in Missionaries’ Writings 7. The Mapmaking of the Italian States. Circulation, Transnational Debates and Geographical Networks in the Italian Scientific Academies during the Long Eighteenth Century 8. A Persian Matteo Ricci: Muḥammad Zamān’s Seventeenth-Century Translation of De Christiana Expeditione Apud Sinas 9. Representing Asia in Il Costume antico e moderno by Giulio Ferrario 10. Voices on China in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Culture (1800-1850) 11. The World seen from Milan: Illustrated Travel Journals in the nineteenth century 12. Columbus and the Others. The Historiographic and Schoolbook Image of the Italian Navigators 13. The Atlantic Slave Trade on Italian Shores. The Case of The Kingdom of Sardinia (1815-1853) 14. From The Banks of the Neva: Italian Diplomats and Representations of Russia in 1862-1914 15. Antonello Gerbi’s Discovery of the New World. Life Experience and the Practice of History (1938-1948)

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Guido Abbattista is Professor of Modern History at the University of Trieste.

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