The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys : A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globetrotter - Kees Boterbloem

The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys

A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globetrotter

By: Kees Boterbloem

Hardcover | 30 September 2008 | Edition Number 1

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The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys depicts the life of a Dutch seventeenth-century sailmaker, the alleged author of a book of breathtaking overseas travels, which became a bestseller across Western Europe after its first publication in Amsterdam in 1676 and remains a key source for Russian and Iranian history. With this first comprehensive investigation of the book and its author, Kees Boterbloem provides unique insight into the precociously modern mindset of the Dutch, early capitalism, the European view of non-European cultures, Russia's modernization, and the relationship between Islam and Christianity in the seventeenth century.
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'Joins the best traditions of archival detective work with the latest in cultural studies to show who generated this seventeenth-century survey of the "Other" and how this work anticipated modernity - in its Orientalist "gaze" as well as in its capitalist inspirations. This combination makes The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys a significant achievement not only to studies of early modern Russia, but also to the history of modernity and Europe's encounter with the non-Christian world.' - Daniel H. Kaiser, Grinnell College Grinnell, USA

'We should thank Kees for telling us the tale in this fascinating account.' Marshall Poe, New Books In History

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