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Book Historia Del Archipielago Y Otros Reynos

Download or read book Historia Del Archipielago Y Otros Reynos written by Marcelo de Ribadeneira and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Being the Heart of the World

Download or read book Being the Heart of the World written by Nino Vallen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the Heart of the World offers a timely reflection on the relationship between mobility and identity-making in the Spanish colonial world. It will be of value to historians of colonial Mexico and the Spanish empire.

Book Handbook of Christianity in China

Download or read book Handbook of Christianity in China written by Nicolas Standaert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the main actors in propagating Christianity in China? Where did Christian communities settle? What discussions were held in China, concerning Christianity? These, and many other, questions are answered in this reference work, which is divided in a systematic part and analytical articles. This handbook represents a true reference guide to the reception of Christianity in pre-1800 China. It presents to the reader, in comprehensive fashion, all current knowledge of Christianity in China, and guides him through the main Chinese and Western sources, bibliographies and archives. The scope of the volume is broad and covers a wide range of topics, such as theology, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, cannon, botany, art, music, and more.

Book Asia in the Making of Europe

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  • Author : Donald Frederick Lach
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780226467320
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Asia in the Making of Europe written by Donald Frederick Lach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.

Book Prosperity without Progress

Download or read book Prosperity without Progress written by Norman Owen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Book Archipelago

Download or read book Archipelago written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chronicler of China

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  • Author : Diego Sola
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-03-18
  • ISBN : 1003858864
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book The Chronicler of China written by Diego Sola and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 1585), by the Spanish Augustinian friar Juan González de Mendoza (1545–1618). Within a few years, this book had reached 30 editions and had been translated into several languages, including English. Mendoza’s chronicle shaped the late Renaissance interpretation of China across Europe. It had its origin in an embassy to emperor Wanli of China sent by Philip II, ruler of the Spanish and Portuguese overseas empires in America and Asia. Reconstructing the biography of González de Mendoza with new sources, this volume offers a systematic study of his account of late Ming China, analyzing its reception and influence both in Spain and elsewhere in Europe. The Chronicler of China is divided into five chapters, covering the Portuguese and Castilian sources that recorded the earliest contacts with China in the sixteenth century, the figure of Mendoza as an ethnographical and political writer, the building of his chronicle on China, the dialogue with his sources and, finally, the footprint of Mendoza’s book in the European Republic of Letters. This book, the most complete study on the Augustinian Mendoza and his historical and ethnographical work to date, contributes to a wider understanding of the Iberian contribution to sixteenth-century travel writing and the Western knowledge of China. It will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in the early modern interpretation of China in Europe.

Book The Indies of the Setting Sun

Download or read book The Indies of the Setting Sun written by Ricardo Padrón and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Padrón reveals the evolution of Spain’s imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia. Narratives of Europe’s westward expansion often tell of how the Americas came to be known as a distinct landmass, separate from Asia and uniquely positioned as new ground ripe for transatlantic colonialism. But this geographic vision of the Americas was not shared by all Europeans. While some imperialists imagined North and Central America as undiscovered land, the Spanish pushed to define the New World as part of a larger and eminently flexible geography that they called las Indias, and that by right, belonged to the Crown of Castile and León. Las Indias included all of the New World as well as East and Southeast Asia, although Spain’s understanding of the relationship between the two areas changed as the realities of the Pacific Rim came into sharper focus. At first, the Spanish insisted that North and Central America were an extension of the continent of Asia. Eventually, they came to understand East and Southeast Asia as a transpacific extension of their empire in America called las Indias del poniente, or the Indies of the Setting Sun. The Indies of the Setting Sun charts the Spanish vision of a transpacific imperial expanse, beginning with Balboa’s discovery of the South Sea and ending almost a hundred years later with Spain’s final push for control of the Pacific. Padrón traces a series of attempts—both cartographic and discursive—to map the space from Mexico to Malacca, revealing the geopolitical imaginations at play in the quest for control of the New World and Asia.

Book Asia in the Making of Europe

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  • Author : Donald F. Lach
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780226467535
  • Pages : 772 pages

Download or read book Asia in the Making of Europe written by Donald F. Lach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philippine Ethnography

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  • Author : Shiro Saito
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2019-09-30
  • ISBN : 0824884124
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book Philippine Ethnography written by Shiro Saito and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive listing of reference sources for Philippine ethnology, excluding physical anthropology and de-emphasizing folklore and linguistics. It is published as part of the East-West Bibliographic Series. This listing includes books, journal articles, mimeographed papers, and official publications selected on the basis of the ratings of sixty-two Philippine specialists. Several titles were added to fill the need for material in certain areas.

Book True Confucians  Bold Christians

Download or read book True Confucians Bold Christians written by Antton Egiguren Iraola and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In [this book] the author invites readers to look at the particular missionary method developed by a small group of Korean Christians during the last quarter of the 18th century. That Korean missionary method of two hundred years ago is proposed as a model for mission in the third millennium."--Page 18-19.

Book The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World

Download or read book The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World written by Himanshu Prabha Ray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical documentation. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of the seas and maritime landscapes in Sanskrit, Arabic and Chinese narratives; materiality of knowledge production as indicated in the archaeological record of communities where writing on stone first appears; and anchoring the coasts, not only through an understanding of littoral shrines and ritual landscapes, but also by an analysis of religious imagery on coins, more so at the time of the introduction of new religions such as Islam in the Indian Ocean around the eighth century. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, Indian Ocean studies, maritime studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, religious studies and cultural studies.

Book They Need Nothing

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  • Author : Robert Richmond Ellis
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 1442645113
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book They Need Nothing written by Robert Richmond Ellis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how these writings depict Asia and Asians as both similar to and different from Europe and Europeans, and details how East and Southeast Asians reacted to the Spanish presence in Asia. They Need Nothing highlights texts related to Japan, China, Cambodia, and the Philippines, beginning with Francis Xavier's observations of Japan in the mid-sixteenth century and ending with José Rizal's responses to the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Ellis provides a groundbreaking expansion of the geographical and cultural contours of Hispanism that bridges the fields of European, Latin American, and Asian Studies.

Book The History of Japan

Download or read book The History of Japan written by Engelbert Kaempfer and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Japan  Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam  1690 92

Download or read book The History of Japan Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690 92 written by Engelbert Kaempfer and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spiritual Vegetation

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  • Author : Guita Lamsechi
  • Publisher : V&R Unipress
  • Release : 2022-04-11
  • ISBN : 3847014269
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Spiritual Vegetation written by Guita Lamsechi and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the concept of the Book of Nature and its implications. Others explore narratives of symbiosis between humans and vegetal material, tree-dwelling hermits, spirits metamorphosing into wood, flowers or trees that sprout from bodies or the dissolution of the self into the natural world. Complementary to these approaches are studies that suggest a collapsing of time and space in spiritually charged yet ambiguous natural motifs or topographies where forests or groves are spaces of transformative experience.