Table of Contents

Part I: One Nation, One World under French Rule Introduction Chapter 1: The First Orientalist; Guillaume Postel Chapter 2: The Ambassadors Chapter 3: France in the World Chapter 4: Orientalism and the Production of Knowledge under Louis XIV Chapter 5: The Turks and the 'Other' Within: The Huguenots Chapter 6: Coffee and Orientalism in France Part II: Consuming the Exotic Chapter 7: A 'barbarous taste': The Transmission of Coffee Drinking Chapter 8: Domesticating the Exotic: Imports and Imitation Chapter 9: The Politics of Pleasure: French Imitations of Oriental Sartorial Splendor and the Royal Carrousels Chapter 10: Orientalism, Despotism and Luxury

Promotional Information

An original account of the ancient regime, this book highlights France's use of the exotic and analyzes French discourse about Islam and the 'Orient'.

About the Author

Ina Baghdiantz McCabe is Darakjian Jafarian Professor of History, Tufts University

Reviews

McCabe has produced an excellent reference work for the researcher in quest of detailed factual information about myriad aspects of early modern France's intellectual, cultural, and economic relations with the Orient. An ambitiously wide-ranging book with exceptionally interesting content.
*Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, for H-France Review*

This erudite book has much of interest to a broad range of scholars
*F. J. Baumgartner (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) - CHOICE Magazine*

There is much to recommend from this work, for example McCabe's bringing together of early travelogues with a focus on their attempts at providing reliable information on a broad variety of topics, and the use made of these travelogues by recent scholars, many of whom she cites to further her own arguments.
*The French Review*