LEADER 00000cam 122010217i 4500 001 18163975 003 LIBRIS 008 150727s2015 xxu||||||b||||001 0|eng| 020 9780674047198|qalkaline paper 020 0674047192|qalkaline paper 041 eng 082 00 909.08|223 084 K.4|2kssb/8 (machine generated) 092 0 909.08|bengelska 245 10 Empires and encounters :|b1350-1750 /|cedited by Wolfgang Reinhard 264 1 Cambridge, Massachusetts :|bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,|c2015 300 vii, 1152 pages|billustrations, maps|c25 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 490 1 History of the world (Belknap Press) 500 Co-published in German as Weltreiche und Weltmeere : 1350- 1750, by C.H. Beck Verlag, 2014 504 Includes bibliographical references and index 505 8 Empires and frontiers in continental Eurasia / Peter C. Perdue -- The Ottoman Empire and the Islamic world / Suraiya Faroqhi -- South Asia and the Indian Ocean / Stephan Conermann -- Southeast Asia and Oceania / Reinhard Wendy and Jürgen G. Nagel -- Europe and the Atlantic world / Wolfgang Reinhard 520 2 "Empires and Encounters presents information on different aspects of human life in all parts of the world from the period 1350 to 1750. In the first centuries of that period people of different parts of the world were not only culturally different but also knew little or even nothing of each other. The Incas for instance had no idea of the existence of Europeans or Africans and vice versa. Inside large regions of the world, however, political interaction, as well as economic and cultural exchange, had been going on for many centuries and was during this period increasing in intensity because this was a time of worldwide empire-building. The chapters of the book examine Eurasia between Japan and Russia; the Ottoman and Iranian Empires of the Muslim world; Mughal India and the trading world of the Indian Ocean; the multicolored world of maritime Southeast Asia and Oceania; and the continents on both sides of the Atlantic under the growing impact of Europe. Europe at this time had no privileged power position, but it did enjoy a special role in establishing regular maritime interaction across the Atlantic and worldwide between the five macro-regions of the globe. The European world economy, based upon the silver of Spanish America, initiated modern globalization"--Provided by publisher 648 7 1500-talet|2sao 648 7 1600-talet|2sao 648 7 1700-talet|2sao 648 7 1500 - 1799|2fast 650 0 World history 650 0 Middle Ages 650 0 History, Modern|y16th century 650 0 History, Modern|y17th century 650 0 History, Modern|y18th century 650 0 Imperialism|xHistory 650 0 International relations|xHistory 650 0 Regionalism|xHistory 650 0 Acculturation|xHistory 650 0 Commerce|xHistory 650 7 Världshistoria|2sao 650 7 Imperialism|xhistoria|2sao 650 7 Internationella relationer|xhistoria|2sao 650 7 Regionalism|xhistoria|2sao 650 7 Ackulturation|xhistoria|2sao 650 7 Handel|xhistoria|2sao 650 7 Acculturation.|2fast 650 7 Commerce.|2fast 650 7 History, Modern.|2fast 650 7 Imperialism.|2fast 650 7 International relations.|2fast 700 1 Reinhard, Wolfgang 730 0 Weltreiche und Weltmeere 830 0 History of the world (Belknap Press) 907 00 190514
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