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100 1 0 _aMarkovits, Claude
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245 0 0 _aAsia – A European Invention?
260 _c2013.
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520 _aHow 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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690 _aEurope
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690 _aAsia
786 0 _nMonde(s) | o 3 | 1 | 2013-06-01 | p. 53-66 | 2261-6268
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-mondes1-2013-1-page-53?lang=en
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