ISBN: 9780674659667

The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enl… Mehr…

The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander’s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in the minds of eighteenth-century intellectuals and philosophes, Alexander was the first European: a successful creator of empire who opened the door to new sources of trade and scientific knowledge, and an enlightened leader who brought the fruits of Western civilization to an oppressed and backward “Orient.”In France, Scotland, England, and Germany, Alexander the Great became an important point of reference in discourses from philosophy and history to political economy and geography. Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Robertson asked what lessons Alexander’s empire-building had to teach modern Europeans. They saw the ancient Macedonian as the embodiment of the rational and benevolent Western ruler, a historical model to be emulated as Western powers accelerated their colonial expansion into Asia, India, and the Middle East.For a Europe that had to contend with the formidable Ottoman Empire, Alexander provided an important precedent as the conqueror who had brought great tyrants of the “Orient” to heel. As The First European makes clear, in the minds of Europe’s leading thinkers, Alexander was not an aggressive militarist but a civilizing force whose conquests revitalized Asian lands that had lain stagnant for centuries under the lash of despotic rulers. Trade Books>Hardcover>World History>Ancient Hist>Ancient Greece, Harvard University Press Core >2<

ISBN: 9780674659667

Hardback, [PU: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS], Enlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander the Gre… Mehr…

Hardback, [PU: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS], Enlightenment thinkers, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander the Great's achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in their minds Alexander was the first European: an empire builder who welcomed trade with the "Orient" and brought Western civilization to its oppressed peoples.<

2017, ISBN: 9780674659667

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: HARVARD UNIV PR], "First published as Alexandre des lumieres: fragments d'histoire europaeenne by Pierre Briant A Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2012."--Title page verso,… Mehr…

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: HARVARD UNIV PR], "First published as Alexandre des lumieres: fragments d'histoire europaeenne by Pierre Briant A Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2012."--Title page verso, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 496, [GW: 924g], Sofortüberweisung, PayPal, Banküberweisung<

2017, ISBN: 9780674659667

A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Harvard University Press], Harvard University Press, 2017

2017, ISBN: 9780674659667

A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Harvard University Press]