Asia – A European Invention?
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2013.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : How did “Asia” – a term originally coined by the Greeks to account for Asia “Minor” – come to designate an immense continent? At a period coeval with the Age of Discoveries, Asia emerged as one of the “four parts of the world”. Its transformation into a continent took place as the rise of geography as a science was under way in Enlightenment Europe. Our final argument examines how Asian elites appropriated that European notion to further their own ends.
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How did “Asia” – a term originally coined by the Greeks to account for Asia “Minor” – come to designate an immense continent? At a period coeval with the Age of Discoveries, Asia emerged as one of the “four parts of the world”. Its transformation into a continent took place as the rise of geography as a science was under way in Enlightenment Europe. Our final argument examines how Asian elites appropriated that European notion to further their own ends.
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