Dramatic events involving religious leaders and their more zealous followers have intruded on the world s stage in recent decades, bringing renewed attention to religion as a significant factor in modern society. This collection of essays, drawn from a conference inspired by the tragic events of September 11, 2001, explores religious conflict and accommodation in various places around the world in the early modern period. The individual studies, though focused on an earlier time, illuminate the challenges facing the early twenty-first-century world, some of which may be hauntingly familiar. Professor James Tracy discusses the battle between Christianity and Islam in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean basin, what he calls the background war of the early modern period. His essay reminds us that these two groups of believers were long-standing enemies, both sides preoccupied with challenges to their own faith. The relationship between religion and politics played out much differently in other parts of the early modern world and the studies in this volume reflect a complexity and diversity of experience that ranges from the conflicts within Christianity during the French Wars of Religion to the Mughal emperor Akbar s attempts to forge mutual understanding among the varied cultures under his rule to the struggles between the Spanish and Chinese for supremacy in the Philippines. Religious conflict has long been a worldwide issue, as these essays attest, yet as they also demonstrate, accommodation was not only possible, it was often quite successful.

Religious Conflict and Accommodation in the Early Modern World

Timothy Brook

James D. Tracy

William D. Phillips Jr.

Jamie Rae Bluestone

Anne Marie Wolf

Stephen P. Blake

Denis Crouzet

Graeme Murdock

Luca Codignola

Frederick Asher

Center for Early Modern History

The world-renowned scholar and author of&nbsp;Vermeer's Hat&nbsp;does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in&nbsp;SPQR: Timothy Brook analyzes the last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world in this magnificent history that brings together accounts from civil servants, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, migrant workers, invaders, visionaries, and traitors--creating a multifaceted portrait of this highly misunderstood nation.China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the thirteenth century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, has maintained them for the eight centuries since. China remained China through the Ming, the Qing, the Republic, the Occupation, and Communism. But despite the desires of some of the most powerful people in the Great State through the ages, China has never been alone in the world. It has had to contend with invaders as well as foreign traders and imperialists. Its rulers for the majority of the last eight centuries have not been Chinese. China became a mega-state not by conquering others, Timothy Brook contends, but rather by being conquered by others and then claiming right of succession to the empires of those Great States. What the Mongols and Manchu ruling families wrought, the Chinese ruling families of the Ming, the Republic, and the People's Republic, have perpetuated. Yet a contemporary Chinese idea of a 'fatherland' that is, and always has been, completely and naturally Chinese persists. Brook argues that China, like everywhere, is the outcome of history, and like every state, rests on its capacities to conquer and suppress. In&nbsp;The Great State, Brook examines China's relationship with the world at large for the first time, from the Yuan through to the present, by following the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people navigating the spaces where China met, and continues to meet, the world.

Great State: China and the World

History

Asia

HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing

A Vermeer painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. In another canvas, fruit spills from a blue and white porcelain bowl. Familiar images that captivate us with their beauty--but as Timothy Brook shows us, these intimate pictures actually give us a remarkable view of an expanding world. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur from North America, and it was beaver pelts from America that financed the voyages of explorers seeking routes to China--prized for the porcelains so often shown in Dutch paintings of this time, including Vermeer's.In this dazzling history, Timothy Brook uses Vermeer's works, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the age when globalization really began.

Vermeer's Hat

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

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“Elegant and quietly important…Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder of humanity’s interdependence.”—Seattle Times A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. I n another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. Vermeer’s images captivate us with their beauty and mystery: What stories lie behind these stunningly rendered moments? As T imothy Brook shows us, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. Moving outward from Vermeer’s studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe. Vermeer’s Hat shows how the urge to acquire foreign goods was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood.

Vermeers Hat The Seventeenth Century & the Dawn of the Global World - 2008 publication

Bloomsbury , 2008

“Elegant and quietly important…Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder of humanity’s interdependence.”—Seattle Times A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. I n another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. Vermeer’s images captivate us with their beauty and mystery: What stories lie behind these stunningly rendered moments? As T imothy Brook shows us, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. Moving outward from Vermeer’s studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe. Vermeer’s Hat shows how the urge to acquire foreign goods was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood.

Profile Books

Quelling People: The Military Suppression Of The Beijing Democracy Movement

Lester Publishing

哈佛中国史(精装全6册) 
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出版社:中信出版社 
出版时间:2016年10月 
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《哈佛中国史》六卷本丛书，由国际知名汉学家卜正民教授领衔主编，集结罗威廉、陆威仪和迪特库恩三位汉学家，萃集半个世纪以来西方中国史研究成果，以全球史视野、多学科知识、倾十年之功写就，是继《剑桥中国史》之后又一套反映西方中国史研究成果和水准的多卷本中国通史。 《哈佛中国史》丛书站在风起云涌的21世纪，从全球史角度重写“世界中国史”，重新思考当下中国。丛书上自公元前221年秦朝一统天下，下至20世纪初清朝终结，分为六个帝国时代——秦汉古典时代、南北朝大分裂、世界性帝国唐朝、宋朝的社会转型、气候变迁影响下元明帝国的兴衰，以及最后的大清王朝，进而串起2000年中华文明跌宕起伏的荣辱命运。 《哈佛中国史》丛书专为普通读者而作，语言生动活泼，文风简明精悍，结构精致合理，极富故事性和启发性，是一套给大众读者的简洁、清晰、独特的新中国通史。 《哈佛中国史》丛书出版后获得很多赞誉，被称为“多卷本中国史的上佳之选”，堪称哈佛大学出版社的经典之作，已被芝加哥大学、康奈尔大学、不列颠哥伦比亚大学、香港科技大学、香港城市大学等多所世界知名大学指定为中国史课程教材。

哈佛中国史(共6册)(精)

Mark Edward Lewis

Dieter Kühn

中信出版社

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