Opis: The Eagle and the Dragon - Serge Gruzinski

In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe. In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and some Portuguese based in Malacca dreamed of colonizing China. The Aztec Eagle was destroyed but the Chinese Dragon held strong and repelled the invaders - after first seizing their cannon. For the first time, people from three continents encountered one other, confronted one other and their lives became entangled. These events were of great interest to contemporaries and many people at the time grasped the magnitude of what was going on around them. The Iberians succeeded in America and failed in China. The New World became inseparable from the Europeans who were to conquer it, while the Celestial Empire became, for a long time to come, an unattainable goal. Gruzinski explores this encounter between civilizations that were different from one another but that already fascinated contemporaries, and he shows that our world today bears the mark of this distant age. For it was in the sixteenth century that human history began to be played out on a global stage. It was then that connections between different parts of the world began to accelerate, not only between Europe and the Americas but also between Europe and China. This is what is revealed by a global history of the sixteenth century, conceived as another way of reading the Renaissance, less Eurocentric and more in tune with our age. "A groundbreaking study a feat of scholarship with striking and far reaching interpretations." Asian Review of Books "Serge Gruzinski has made a brilliant contribution to the new genre of connected history in this study, which contrasts the successful conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards with the failure of Portuguese attempts to colonize China." Peter BurkeIntroduction Chapter 1 - Two tranquil worlds Chapter 2 - Openness to the world Chapter 3 - Because the world is round Chapter 4 - A leap into the unknown? Chapter 5 - Books and letters from the other end of the world Chapter 6 - Embassy or conquest? Chapter 7 - The clash of civilizations Chapter 8 - Naming the other Chapter 9 - A story of cannon Chapter 10 - Opacity or transparency? Chapter 11 - The greatest cities in the world Chapter 12 - The Hour of the crime Chapter 13 - The Place of the Whites Chapter 14 - To everyone their own post-war Chapter 15 - The secrets of the South Sea Chapter 16 - China on the horizon Chapter 17 - When China awakes Conclusion - Towards a global history of the Renaissance Notes Bibliography

Szczegóły: The Eagle and the Dragon - Serge Gruzinski

Tytuł: The Eagle and the Dragon
Autor: Serge Gruzinski
Producent: Polity Press
ISBN: 9780745667126
Rok produkcji: 2014
Ilość stron: 312
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.46 kg

Recenzje: The Eagle and the Dragon - Serge Gruzinski