History Associates Talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri on “Beyond the Mountains and Seas: Eurasian History through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE-1936 CE)”

The History associates brings to you a talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri off the department of history on his latest book. The talk narrates the integrated history of Eurasia over the last two millennia through the travel of two dozen remarkable men and women who voyaged across this vast continent and reported on their encounters with a foreign culture.  It argues that, despite increasing empirical knowledge gathered about   the “other,” mental projections of the “monsters at the edge of the world,” still colored peoples’ perception of the foreign “other” well into the modern era.