{"product_id":"empires-of-love-9780812244830","title":"Empires of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a wide range of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sources, Empires of Love shows how the encounter with Asia shaped the way early modern Europeans came to define their racial and sexual identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Compelling and filled with rich textual and historical details, \u003ci\u003eEmpires of Love\u003c\/i\u003e will alter the ways we read the cross-cultural and domestic production of both race and desire.\" * Emily Bartels, Rutgers University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Carmen Nocentelli's book makes important contributions to the multiple fields it embraces, from colonial studies to gender politics to comparative literature. Scholars working in all of the national traditions presented in \u003ci\u003eEmpires of Love\u003c\/i\u003e will find much to think about.\" * Josiah Blackmore, University of Toronto *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Quotations and Translations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Perverse Implantations\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Erotic Politics of \u003ci\u003eOs Lusíadas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Discipline and Love: Linschoten and the Estado da Índia\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Polygamy and the Arts of Reduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Ideology of Interracial Romance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. English Whiteness and the End of Romance\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405721379159,"sku":"9780812244830","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812244830.jpg?v=1730493388","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empires-of-love-9780812244830","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}