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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.
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The Lords of Human Kind: European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age
March 1996, Serif Publishing
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The lords of human kind: European attitudes to other cultures in the Imperial Age
1995, Serif
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The lords of human kind: black man, yellow man, and white man in an age of empire
1988, Cresset Library
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0091822548 9780091822545
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The lords of human kind: black man, yellow man, and white man in an age of empire
1986, Columbia University Press
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0231059418 9780231059411
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The lords of human kind: European attitudes towards the outside world in the Imperial Age
1969, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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0297177613 9780297177616
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The lords of human kind: black man, yellow man, and white man in an age of empire
1969, Little, Brown
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