An edition of The lords of human kind: European attitudes towards the outside world in the Imperial Age (1969)
The lords of human kind
black man, yellow man, and white man in an age of empire
By V. G. Kiernan,V. G Kiernan,KIERNAN V G,E. Victor Gordon Kiernan,Victor Gordon Kiernan,V.G Kiernan,Victor Kiernan,Eric Hobsbawm,John Trumpbour,V. G. Kiernan
Publish Date
1969-01-01
Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
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Pages
345
Description:
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. The legacy of colonial attitudes to other cultures is, of course, an integral part of the modern world, and the history of their formation is one which cannot be ignored.