The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World, Hardcover - Anne Gerritsen

Reducere. We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African c...

DescriptionFor many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insula...

Jingdezhen to the World: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming Dynasty, Hardcover

Reducere. With over 800 unique photographs, this Chinese art book is a feast for the eyes. Produced exclusively for wealthy Chinese communities along the Str...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Yanjun WengIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022D...

A Deeper Shade of Blue recounts how Chelsea Football Club went from being the cup kings of London to a struggling mid-table Second Division side. I...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Anne RooneyIllustration(s): PaperbackNumber of pages: 208Collection: How the World WorksPublication da...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Casey J. (University of California Davis, USA) SullivanIllustration(s): 65 bw illusNumber of page...

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge...

Reducere. Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Gr nbei...

DescriptionA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced sur...

"Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and six...

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern per...

Description This collection seeks to offer new and important insights into medicine in early modern Ireland. It situates Irish medicine in relation...

The Chinese porcelain objects collected by Alvaro Conde constitute one of the finest private collections worldwide. This publication includes texts...

Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

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DescriptionEmerging at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic rose to become a powerhouse of economic growth, artistic creativity,...

Reducere. The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Je...

Reducere. European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience ...

Its atmosphere - slow, dark, meditative, luminous - became all-pervasive for a generation, and has remained the epitome of melancholy coolness ever...

Reducere. A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the presentPorcelain was invented in medieval China--but its ...

The opulent wares of the renowned Sevres manufactory are prominently displayed in palaces and art galleries throughout the world. By contrast, the ...

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and exp...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

Reducere. Here is a fast paced, highly readable and interesting Catholic world history. It clearly illustrates that Christ is the central figure in all of hi...

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White city blue

Alexander Des Forges reads shiwen from a literary perspective, showing how the examination essay redefined prose aesthetics, transformed the work o...

Reducere. Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded...

With its penetrating analyses and masterly synthesis of current scholarship, this "wonderfully clear and concise" book gives readers "the best brie...

Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature centered on the idea of emotion as space. Tracing how...

By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter, Lindsay O'Neill argues that the Briti...

Reducere. "This story has haunted me since I was a child, " begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grand...