1688: a Global History - Rilegato

Wills, John E

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1862074135 ISBN 13: 9781862074132

Casa editrice: Granta Books, 2001

Riassunto

This work is a survey of the world on the threshold of modernity and a sweeping narrative of different cultures being drawn together by the pull of trade and violence: a world where spices, silver and slaves made fortunes and ruined lives. The reader is taken on a journey around the world, through Russia, where Tsar Peter is about to launch a coup that will change his country's history forever; to the splendid court of the Sun King in France; to Mexico; to the Sonora desert of North America, where a Jesuit priest and his tribe of Pima Indian converts are about to discover California; to Manila, Jamaica, Australia, South Africa, Siam and to England, where a Dutch king lands in Dorset to begin the Glorious Revolution and fashion the state under which we still live.

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Product Description:

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. A particularly fine example; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp cornered.; 330 pages; Description: 330 p. : map ; 24 cm. Indexed and comprehensively annotated. Subject: History, Modern --17th century --Dates covered: 1688-1688 --History, Modern. Summary: John 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 death of his grandmother and shrewdly consolidates his power. Join the great caravans of Muslims on their annual pilgrimage from Damascus and Cairo to Mecca. Walk the pungent streets of Amsterdam and enter the Rasp House, where vagrants, beggars, and petty criminals labored to produce powdered brazilwood for the dyeworks. Through these stories and many others, Wills paints a detailed picture of how the global connections of power, money, and belief were beginning to lend the world its modern form.

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• Editore: Granta Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1862074135
• ISBN 13: 9781862074132
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320