| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-314) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. A world of wooden ships -- [ch.] 1. The empire of silver -- [ch.] 2. Many Africas -- [ch.] 3. Slaves, ships, and frontiers -- [ch.] 4. Dampier and the aborigines -- pt. 2. The world of the great company -- [ch.] 5. The Cape of Good Hope -- [ch.] 6. The island world -- [ch.] 7. Phaulkon -- pt. 3. Three worlds apart : Russia, China, Japan -- [ch.] 8. Tsar Peter's Russia -- [ch.] 9. Survivors and visionaries -- [ch.] 10. At the court of Kangxi |
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-- [ch.] 11. The Jesuits and China -- [ch.] 12. Kanazawa, Edo, Nagasaki -- [ch.] 13. Saikaku and Bashô -- pt. 4. Versailles, London, Amsterdam -- [ch.] 14. The Sun King and the ladies -- [ch.] 15. A family quarrel and a glorious revolution -- [ch.] 16. Echoes across the oceans -- [ch.] 17. A hundred years of freedom -- pt. 5. Worlds of words: styles and thought in Europe -- [ch.] 18. In the republic of letters -- [ch.] 19. Aphra Behn -- [ch.] 20. |
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Newton, Locke, and Leibniz -- pt. 6. Islam and its others -- [ch.] 21. The worlds of the Great Sultan -- [ch.] 22. Mecca -- [ch.] 23. Hindus and Muslims -- [ch.] 24. Englishmen, Indians, and others -- pt. 7. Exile, hope, and family -- [ch.] 25. Next year in Jerusalem -- [ch.] 26. O well is thee. |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 17th century.
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| ISBN |
039304744X |
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9780393047448 |
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