University of Chicago Press Asia in the Making of Europe V 3 – A Century of Advance Bk2: A Century of Advance. Book 2, South Asia Volume 3

Product Description This monumental series, acclaimed as a masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples. About the Author Donald F. Lach is the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor Emeritus in modern history at the University of Chicago.