First Globalization: The Eurasian Exchange, 1500-1800 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742526624)

First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his "metageography" of the vast Eurasian zone, Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language, play, crime and punishment, gender, and governance, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and "creolization" of cultures.

Author: Geoffrey C. Gunn
ISBN-10: 0742526623
ISBN-13: 9780742526624
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2003
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.88w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2004 pg. 1132