Empires and Encounters (History of the World): 1350–1750 (A History of the World) - Hardcover

Wolfgang Reinhard; Akira Iriye; Jürgen Osterhammel; Stephan Conermann; Peter C. Perdue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674047192 ISBN 13: 9780674047198

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Between 1350 and 1750 a time of empires, exploration, and exposure to radically different lands and cultures the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed History of the World series, noted international scholars examine five critical geographical areas during this pivotal period: Eurasia between Russia and Japan; the Muslim world of the Ottoman and Persian empires; Mughal India and the Indian Ocean trading world; maritime Southeast Asia and Oceania; and a newly configured transatlantic rim. While people in many places remained unaware of anything beyond their own village, an intense period of empire building led to expanding political, economic, and cultural interaction on every continent early signals of a shrinking globe. By the early fourteenth century Eurasia s Mongol empires were disintegrating. Concurrently, followers of both Islam and Christianity increased exponentially, with Islam exerting a powerful cultural influence in the spreading Ottoman and Safavid empires. India came under Mughal rule, experiencing a significant growth in trade along the Indian Ocean and East African coastlines. In Southeast Asia, Muslims engaged in expansion on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and the Philippines. And both sides of the Atlantic responded to the pressure of European commerce, which sowed the seeds of a world economy based on the resources of the Americas but made possible by the subjugation of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans."

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Review

A solid introduction to the period from a global perspective.--M. E. Wiesner"Choice" (12/01/2015)

About the Author

Wolfgang Reinhard is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Freiburg. Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Jurgen Osterhammel is Professor of Modern History at the University of Konstanz. Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University and the author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (HUP), awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize from the Association of Asian Studies. Wolfgang Reinhard is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Freiburg.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0674047192
• ISBN 13: 9780674047198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1160