Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain intellectuals to King Akbar's court in the 1560s, then details the numerous Mugha...(展开全部)

Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain intellectuals to King Akbar's court in the 1560s, then details the numerous Mugha...(展开全部)

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle, and twentieth-century Los Angeles, Frontier Cities recov...(展开全部)

This major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter explores mobility in East Asia through the histories of often ignored categories of people, including trafficked children, peddlers, 'abducted' women and a fe...(展开全部)

作者简介：约翰·库珀，英国约克大学历史学教授，英国皇家历史学会会士，伦敦古物学会会士。主要研究领域为16世纪英格兰政治史、宗教史与建筑史。著有《失落的威斯敏斯特礼拜堂：皇家礼拜堂如何成为下议院》等多部作品。 译者简介：杜宣莹，北京大学历史学系副教授，英国约克大学历史学博士，研究领域为英国近代史。

作者简介：约翰·库珀，英国约克大学历史学教授，英国皇家历史学会会士，伦敦古物学会会士。主要研究领域为16世纪英格兰政治史、宗教史与建筑史。著有《失落的威斯敏斯特礼拜堂：皇家礼拜堂如何成为下议院》等多部作品。 译者简介：杜宣莹，北京大学历史学系副教授，英国约克大学历史学博士，研究领域为英国近代史。

作者简介：约翰·库珀，英国约克大学历史学教授，英国皇家历史学会会士，伦敦古物学会会士。主要研究领域为16世纪英格兰政治史、宗教史与建筑史。著有《失落的威斯敏斯特礼拜堂：皇家礼拜堂如何成为下议院》等多部作品。 译者简介：杜宣莹，北京大学历史学系副教授，英国约克大学历史学博士，研究领域为英国近代史。

作者简介：约翰·库珀，英国约克大学历史学教授，英国皇家历史学会会士，伦敦古物学会会士。主要研究领域为16世纪英格兰政治史、宗教史与建筑史。著有《失落的威斯敏斯特礼拜堂：皇家礼拜堂如何成为下议院》等多部作品。 译者简介：杜宣莹，北京大学历史学系副教授，英国约克大学历史学博士，研究领域为英国近代史。

This collection of essays reveals the Ming court as an arena of competition and negotiation, where a large cast of actors pursued individual and corporate ends, personal agency shaped protocol and style, and diverse people, goods, and tastes converged. Rather than observing an immutable set of traditions, court culture underwent frequent reinterpretation and rearticulation, pro...(展开全部)