The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730 by Robert Markley

The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730

Robert Markley

316 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

challenging informative slow-paced
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries China, Japan and the Spice Islands dazzled the English imagination as insatiable markets for European goods, and as vast, inexhaustible storehouses of spices and luxury wares. Robert Markley explores the...

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