The lords of human kind: European attitudes towards the outside world in the Imperial Age

by V. G. Kiernan, Eric Hobsbawm, John Trumpbour et al.

1969 336 pages eng

When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them, occasionally admiring, more oft…