DONALD F. LACH, HOME PAGE. Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor Emeritus of History, University of Chicago

DONALD F. LACH,

September 24, 1917 - October 26, 2000.

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of Modern History Emeritus

The University of Chicago

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Asia in the Making of Europe, The University of Chicago Press

Volume III: A Century of Advance, co-author, Edwin J. Van Kley.

Book Four, East Asia.

click here to see cover of most recent volume

Book Three, Southeast Asia.
Book Two, South Asia.
Book One, Trade, Missions, Literature

Volume II: A Century of Wonder

Book Three: The Scholarly Disciplines
Book Two: The Literary Arts
Book One: The Visual Arts

Volume I: A Century of Discovery

Book Two.
Book One.

Praise for earlier volumes of Asia in the Making of Europe.

New York Review of Books

"Here we have an attempt to bring together, in a consistent narrative, everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps, during the sixteenth century. One can only admire the immense industry and knowledge, and the skill in marshaling the evidence, which Professor Lach has put into his work ... Already one can say that nothing of this scope and magnitude has been performed before, and nothing is likely to be performed again."

Journal of the History of Ideas

"Professor Lach's entire work is a provocative challenge to the conventional opinions that have been held by many Western historians of the past."

New York Times Book Review

"No scholar before Donald F. Lach has attempted to survey the intricate web of relationships between Europe and Asia at such a level of detail. His book is a masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship."

Geoffrey Parker, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (advance praise for Volume III)

"The sheer erudition, whether on Europe or Asia, is stunning and unparalleled...The book is a triumph. A survey of such breadth and depth has never been attempted before, and such is the quality of the coverage achieved, I do not believe that it will ever require to be attempted again."

SPECIAL EXHIBITION, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY, 1991.

Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries

(selected photos by Alma S. Lach)

BIOGRAPHY APPEARS IN Who's Who in America and other reference works.

A FEW RELATED WEB SITES

The University of Chicago Home Page, http://www.uchicago.edu
The University of Chicago Press Home Page, http://www.press.uchicago.edu
The University of Chicago, Department of History, http://www2.uchicago.edu/ssd-history
Bodleian Library Map Room, http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/nnj
The Ryhiner Map Collection, http://www.stub.unibe.ch/stub/ryhiner/ryhiner.html
Newberry Library, http://theory.esm.rochester.edu/SMT.NL19.2/newberry.grants.html

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