Asia in the Making of Europe: A Century of Advance : Southeast Asia: A Century of Advance. Book 3: Southeast Asia (Asia in the Making of Europe Volume III) - Softcover

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.

"The most comprehensive work on the history of Western perceptions of pre-modern Asia ever written."--Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books

"In an age bloated with babble about multiculturalism, we are indebted to Lach and Van Kley for reminding us how difficult it is to practice the real thing."--Charles Horner, Commentary

"One can hardly deny the impressiveness of the contribution of Lach and Van Kley who have shown in magisterial detail that many of the later attitudes of European superiority toward Asia simply were not present in the seventeenth century. In the process, we are carefully reminded that the past is not always less advanced than the present."--D. E. Mungello, Washington Post Book World