This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, ...(展开全部)

This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, ...(展开全部)

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well over a century. These include the Filat'evs, who were among Russia's most illust...(展开全部)

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well over a century. These include the Filat'evs, who were among Russia's most illust...(展开全部)

柯律格（Craig Clunas）1954年出生于英国苏格兰阿伯丁，现任英国牛津大学艺术史系讲座教授，曾任伦敦维多利亚与艾伯特博物馆（Victoria & Albert Museum）中国部资深研究员兼策展人15年，并自1994年起先后执教于萨塞克斯大学（University of Sussex）艺术史系及伦敦大学亚非学院（SOAS）。柯律格是当前从物质文化角度研究中国文明史的重要学者，自1991年起陆续出版《长物：早期现代中国的物质文化与社会状况》（Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China, 1991）、《丰饶之地：明代中国的园林文化》（Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty Chin...(展开全部)

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision som...(展开全部)

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision som...(展开全部)

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have transformed our understanding of the past. First published in 1978, this study examines...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克（Peter Burke），英国历史学家。1937年生，现为剑桥大学文化史教授和伊曼纽尔学院研究员。伯克毕业于牛津大学，获圣约翰学院学士学位和圣安东尼学院硕士学位。一度任苏塞克斯大学高级讲师。1970年转入剑桥大学执教。伯克的研究专长在欧洲近代早期的社会史、思想史和文化史，主要著作包括《文艺复兴时代的历史观》（1970年）、《文艺复兴时代意大利的文化与社会：1420－1540年》（1972年）、《文艺复兴时代意大利的传统和创新：一种社会学的研究方法》（1974年）、《威尼斯和阿姆斯特丹：17世纪上层社会研究》（1974）、《欧洲近代早期的大众文化》（1978年）、《社会学和历史学》（1980年）、《蒙泰涅》（1981年）、《维科》（1985年）、《法国的史学革命：年鉴学派1929－1989年》（1990年）、《制作路易十四》（1992年）、...(展开全部)

Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns conducted a foreign policy that established the shogunate's legitimacy, preserved Japan's security in an unstable environment, and buttressed her ideological pretensions to centrality in an East Asian order independent of the Chinese worl...(展开全部)