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Vermeer's Hat

Timothy Brook
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Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847652546

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In one painting, a Dutch military officer leans toward a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. In a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a Turkish carpet. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur, which European explorers got from Native Americans in exchange for weapons. Beaver pelts, in turn, financed the voyages of sailors seeking new routes to China. There - with silver mined in Peru - Europeans would purchase, by the thousands, the porcelain so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time. Vermeer's haunting images hint at the stories behind these exquisitely rendered moments. As Timothy Brook shows us in Vermeer's Hat, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually open doors onto a rapidly expanding world.

Great State

Timothy Brook
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Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782833475

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China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height of their power could not move past coastal enclaves. Thus, China remained China through the Ming, the Qing, the Republic, the Occupation, and Communism. But, despite the desires of some of the most powerful people in the Great State through the ages, China has never been alone in the world. It has had to contend with invaders from the steppe and the challenges posed by foreign traders and imperialists. Indeed, its rulers for the majority of the last eight centuries have not been Chinese. Timothy Brook examines China's relationship with the world from the Yuan through to the present by following the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people navigating the spaces where China met and meets the world. Bureaucrats, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, invaders, migrant workers, traitors, and visionaries: this is a history of China as no one has told it before.

Vermeers Hat

Timothy Brook
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Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780143191001

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In one painting, a military officer in a Dutch sitting room flirts with a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. Vermeer’s paintings haunt us with their beauty and mystery—what stories lay behind these stunningly rendered moments? As Timothy Brook shows us, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. The dashing officer’s hat is of beaver fur from Canada, while the pieces of silver, mined in Peru, might be used to purchase the Chinese porcelain seen in other Vermeer paintings. Moving outward from Vermeer’s studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe in the seventeenth century. The wharves of Holland, wrote a French visitor, were “an inventory of the possible.” Vermeer’s Hat shows just how rich this inventory was, and how the urge to acquire such things was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood.

Mr. Selden's Map of China

Timothy Brook
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Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620401446

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Mr. Selden's Map of China by Timothy Brook Pdf

From the author of the award-winning Vermeer's Hat, a historical detective story decoding a long-forgotten link between seventeenth century Europe and China. Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old. In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford's Bodleian Library-where it had first been deposited 350 years before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a fake-yet records confirmed it had been delivered to Oxford in 1659. The “Selden Map,” as it is known, was a puzzle that needing solving. Brook, a historian of China, set out to explore the riddle. His investigation will lead readers around this elegant, enigmatic work of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the court of King James II. In the story of Selden's map, he reveals for us the surprising links between an English scholar and merchants half a world away, and offers novel insights into the power and meaning that a single map can hold. Brook delivers the same anecdote-rich narrative, intriguing characters, and unexpected historical connections that made Vermeer's Hat an instant classic.

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Timothy Brook,Jérôme Bourgon,Gregory Blue
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Author : Timothy Brook,Jérôme Bourgon,Gregory Blue
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674027736

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Death by a Thousand Cuts by Timothy Brook,Jérôme Bourgon,Gregory Blue Pdf

In Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin became one of the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi, called by Western observers “death by a thousand cuts.” This is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the 10th century until lingchi’s abolition in 1905.

Civil Society in China

Timothy Brook,B. Michael Frolic
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Author : Timothy Brook,B. Michael Frolic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317474388

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Civil Society in China by Timothy Brook,B. Michael Frolic Pdf

The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China.

The Company and the Shogun

Adam Clulow
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Author : Adam Clulow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231535731

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The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon their claims to sovereign powers, and to refashion themselves again and again—from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial sovereignty to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. Within the confines of these conflicts, the terms of the relationship between the company and the shogun first took shape and were subsequently set into what would become their permanent form. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company in Japan as something more than just a commercial organization, The Company and the Shogun presents new perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting relationships to develop between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise.

Nation Work

Timothy Brook,André Schmid
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Author : Timothy Brook,André Schmid
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0472087649

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Nation Work by Timothy Brook,André Schmid Pdf

As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and Andr Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical examples from Asian countries--China, India, Korea, and Japan--to enrich our understandings of the origin and growth of nations. Asia provides fertile ground for this inquiry, the volume argues, because in Asia the history of the modern nation has been inseparable from global influences in the form of Western imperialism. Yet, while the impetus for building a modern national identity may have come from the need to fashion a favorable place in a world system dominated by Western nations, those engaged in nationalist enterprises found their particular voices more often in relation to tensions within Asia than in relation to more generic tensions between Asia and the West. With topics ranging from public health measures in nineteenth-century Japan through textual scholarship of Tamil intellectuals, the willful division of Korea's history from China's, the development of China's cotton industry, and the meaning of "postnational-ism" for Chinese artists, the essays reveal the fascinating array of sites at which nation work can take place. This will be essential reading for historians and social scientists interested in Asia. Timothy Brook is Professor of History, Stanford University. Andr Schmid is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto.

The Chinese State in Ming Society

Timothy Brook
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Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415345065

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This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines the relationship between the present day state and society in China.

The Asiatic Mode of Production in China

Timothy Brook
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Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315491912

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Brook (history, U. of Toronto) surveys the history of the concept of the AMP (a concept formulated by Karl Marx in the 1850s) in China in relation to debates elsewhere, and examines the particular issues raised in recent Chinese discussions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Opium Regimes

Timothy Brook,Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
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Author : Timothy Brook,Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520222369

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Opium Regimes by Timothy Brook,Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Pdf

Opium Regimes draws on a range of research to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation, but involved Chinese merchants and state agents, and Japanese imperial agents as well.

Praying for Power

Timothy Brook
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Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0674697758

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In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China, Buddhists and Confucians alike flooded local Buddhist monasteries with donations. As gentry numbers grew faster than the imperial bureaucracy, traditional Confucian careers were closed to many; but visible philanthropy could publicize elite status outside the state realm. Actively sought by fundraising abbots, such patronage affected institutional Buddhism. After exploring the relation of Buddhism to Ming Neo-Confucianism, the growth of tourism to Buddhist sites, and the mechanisms and motives for charitable donations, Timothy Brook studies three widely separated and economically dissimilar counties. He draws on rich data in monastic gazetteers to examine the patterns and social consequences of patronage.

A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815

Lisa Rosner,John Theibault
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Author : Lisa Rosner,John Theibault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317477914

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A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815 by Lisa Rosner,John Theibault Pdf

A concise survey that introduces readers to the people, ideas, and conflicts in European history from the Thirty Years' War to the Napoleonic Era. The authors draw on gender studies, environmental history, anthropology and cultural history to frame the essential argument of the work.

Quelling the People

Timothy Brook
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Author : Timothy Brook
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0804736383

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The Golden Rhinoceros

François-Xavier Fauvelle
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Author : François-Xavier Fauvelle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691217147

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The Golden Rhinoceros by François-Xavier Fauvelle Pdf

From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations, and where African royals, thinkers, and artists played celebrated roles in the globalized world of the Middle Ages. Drawing on fragmented written sources as well as his many years of experience as an archaeologist, the author reconstructs an African past that is too often denied its place in history. He looks at ruined cities found in the mangrove, exquisite pieces of art, rare artifacts like the golden rhinoceros of Mapungubwe, ancient maps, and accounts left by geographers and travelers