Empires and encounters : 1350-1750
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Reinhard Wolfgang (1937-....) ;
- Editeurs : Cambridge, Massachusetts London The Belknap press of Harvard University press ;
- Date d'édition : 2015, cop. 2015
- ISBN : 978-0-674-04719-8, 0-674-04719-2
- Sujets : Histoire universelle, Moyen âge, Impérialisme, Relations internationales, Régionalisme, Acculturation, Commerce, Asie -- Relations extérieures Europe -- 14e siècle, Asie, Europe
- Comprend : Weltreiche und Weltmeere
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VII-1152 p.), : Ill., cartes, jaquette ill. en coul., 25 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : A history of the world
Notes
Publié aussi en allemand sous le titre : 'Weltreiche und Weltmeere : 1350-1750' par C.H. Beck Verlag, cop. 2014 ; Bibliogr. p. 1049-1122. Notes bibliogr.. Index
Résumé
'Empires and Encounters presents information on different aspects of human life in all parts of the world from the period 1350 to 1750. In the first centuries of that period people of different parts of the world were not only culturally different but also knew little or even nothing of each other. The Incas for instance had no idea of the existence of Europeans or Africans and vice versa. Inside large regions of the world, however, political interaction, as well as economic and cultural exchange, had been going on for many centuries and was during this period increasing in intensity because this was a time of worldwide empire-building. The chapters of the book examine Eurasia between Japan and Russia; the Ottoman and Iranian Empires of the Muslim world; Mughal India and the trading world of the Indian Ocean; the multicolored world of maritime Southeast Asia and Oceania; and the continents on both sides of the Atlantic under the growing impact of Europe. Europe at this time had no privileged power position, but it did enjoy a special role in establishing regular maritime interaction across the Atlantic and worldwide between the five macro-regions of the globe. The European world economy, based upon the silver of Spanish America, initiated modern globalization'