TY  - BOOK
AU  - Markovits,Claude
TI  - Asia – A European Invention?
PY  - 2013///.
							
N1  - 33
N2  - 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
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-mondes1-2013-1-page-53?lang=en
ER  -