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  • Mountain of Fame

    Portraits in Chinese History

    de John E. Wills ...
    Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives--biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities--including those of statesmen, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • 1688

    A Global History

    de John E. Wills Jr., Ph.D. ...
    "A totally absorbing book…imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception." —Jonathan D. SpenceJohn E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice of the haiku poet Basho. Witness the splendor of the Chinese imperial court as the Kangxi emperor publicly mourns the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The World from 1450 to 1700

    de John E. Wills Jr. ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    In The World from 1450 to 1700, historian John Wills takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in world history. Assuming a global perspective, rather than the traditional Eurocentric view, Wills traces the interwoven changes that led from the world of Columbus, Luther, and the Mughal emperor Babur to the world of Locke, Louis XIV, and the Kangxi emperor. The book's ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800

    Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions

    de John E. Wills, Jr, John Cranmer-Byng, Willard J. Peterson, Jr, John W. Witek ...
    China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

    Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

    de Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Professor Robert J. Antony, Dr. Robert K. Batchelor, Dr. Leonard Blusse, Professor Anna Busquets, Dr. Patrizia Carioti0, Dr. Weichung Cheng1, Dr. Adam Clulow2, Dr. Dahpon D. Ho3, Dr. Peter Kang4, Michael Laver5, Cheng-Heng Lu6, Dr. Mark Ravina7, Dr. Peter D. Shapinsky8, Birgit Tremml-Werner9, John E. Wills, , Jr.0 ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Global Past
    Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Pacific America

    Histories of Transoceanic Crossings

    de Lon Kurashige, Eiichiro Azuma, Keith L. Camacho, Greg Dvorak, Professor Augusto Espiritu, Dr. Peter E. Hamilton, Professor Brian Masaru Hayashi, Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor Phuong Nguyen, Professor Christen T. Sasaki0, Professor Elizabeth Sinn1, John E. Wills, , Jr.2, Professor Susie Woo3, Yujin Yaguchi4, Professor Kariann Akemi Yokota5 ...
    In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans the country’s fastest growing racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc of ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The World From 1450 To 1700

    de John E. Wills Jr. ...
    In The World from 1450 to 1700, historian John Wills takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in world history. Assuming a global perspective, rather than the traditional Eurocentric view, Wills traces the interwoven changes that led from the world of Columbus, Luther, and the Mughal emperor Babur to the world of Locke, Louis XIV, and the Kangxi emperor. The book's ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

    de Paul Strathern ...
    Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia—three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly alter each man’s perceptions—and the course of Western history.In 1502, ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of News

    How the World Came to Know About Itself

    de Andrew Pettegree ...
    "A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution" and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Leer más

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  • Empires of the Word

    A Language History of the World

    de Nicholas Ostler ...
    A "monumental" account of the rise and fall of languages, with "many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes, and charming linguistic oddities" ( Chicago Tribune).Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that bind communities together and make possible both the living of a common history and the telling ... Leer más

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  • Dirt

    A Social History as Seen Through the Uses and Abuses of Dirt

    de Terence McLaughlin ...
    Delve into the fascinating world of dirt in this history of culture, cleanliness, and our evolving perceptions of what is and isn't gross.In this engaging and often humorous study of life's imperfections, public health and hygiene authority Terence McLaughlin dissects our attitudes toward the filth that has accompanied society throughout human history. According to him, "dirt" is a matter of ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Man Within

    de Graham Greene ...
    The "strikingly original" debut novel by the award-winning British author is "a perfect adventure" of love and smuggling on the English coast ( The Nation ).Francis Andrews is a reluctant smuggler living in the shadow of his brutish father's legacy. To exorcise the ghosts of the man he loathes, Andrews betrays his colleagues to authorities and takes flight across the downs. It's here that he ... Leer más

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