Before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later eighteenth century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, mapping the place within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India. The Orientalist writers studied here produced books that would become sources used throughout the eighteenth century. Nicholas Dew places these scholars in their own context as members of the "republic of letters" in the age of the scientific revolution and the early Enlightenment.

About the Author
Nicholas Dew is Assistant Professor of History at McGill University, in Montreal. He is the co-editor, with James Delbourgo, of Science and Empire in the Atlantic World (Routledge, 2008).

Awards
Winner of Winner of the Canadian Historical Association Wallace K. Ferguson Prize 2011.



Book Information
ISBN 9780199234844
Author Nicholas Dew
Format Hardback
Page Count 318
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 515g
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 145mm * 24mm