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Jerry Brotton Four Points Of The Compass: The Unexpected History Of Direction
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A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 Maps\n\nNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For millennia, these four directions have been foundational to our travel, navigation and exploration and are central to the imaginative, moral and political geography of virtually every culture in the world. Yet they are far more subjective and various – sometimes contradictory – than we might realize.\n\nThe Four Points of the Compass takes the reader on a journey of directional discovery. Jerry Brotton reveals why Hebrew culture privileges east; why Renaissance Europeans began drawing north at the top of their maps; why the early Islam revered the south; why the Aztecs used five colour-coded cardinal directions; and why no societies, primitive or modern, have ever orientated themselves westwards. He ends by reflecting on our digital age in which we, the little blue dot on the screen, have become the most important compass point. Throughout, Brotton shows that the directions reflect a human desire to create order and that they only have meaning, literally and metaphorically, depending on where you stand.
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A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 Maps\n\nNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For millennia, these four directions have been foundational to our travel, navigation and exploration and are central to the imaginative, moral and political geography of virtually every culture in the world. Yet they are far more subjective and various – sometimes contradictory – than we might realize.\n\nThe Four Points of the Compass takes the reader on a journey of directional discovery. Jerry Brotton reveals why Hebrew culture privileges east; why Renaissance Europeans began drawing north at the top of their maps; why the early Islam revered the south; why the Aztecs used five colour-coded cardinal directions; and why no societies, primitive or modern, have ever orientated themselves westwards. He ends by reflecting on our digital age in which we, the little blue dot on the screen, have become the most important compass point. Throughout, Brotton shows that the directions reflect a human desire to create order and that they only have meaning, literally and metaphorically, depending on where you stand.
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Jerry Brotton Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored And Explained
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EAN: 9781409345718
Categoria: Libri e riviste
A superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world! \n\nFrom examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and maps of the moon, this captivating maps book is a must-have for all history and geography enthusiasts and explorers! \n\nEmbark on a visual tour of the world's finest maps! This fascinating world atlas book: \n\n- Analyses each map visually, with the help of pull-outs and graphic close-up details\n- Traces the history of maps chronologically, providing a fascinating overview of cartography through the ages\n- Tells the story behind each map - why it was created, who it was for, and how it was achieved\n- Profiles key cartographers, explorers, and artists\n- Draws together navigation, propaganda, power, art, and politics through the world's greatest maps\n\nMaps are much more than just geographical data. They are an accurate reflection of the culture and context of different time frames in history. This remarkable geography book puts cartography on the map! It tells the stories behind great maps through stunning pull-out details and reveals how they have helped people make sense of the world. \n\nEmbark on a global adventure of a lifetime with this world map book and see our planet like never before! On this mind-blowing journey, you'll encounter maps that show the way to heaven, depict lands with no sunshine and even the world ocean floor. \n\nWith incredible secret stories from British historian, Jerry Brotton, and insight into how mapmakers have expressed their world views, Great Maps is a welcome addition to any armchair cartographer's bookshelf.
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A superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world! \n\nFrom examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and maps of the moon, this captivating maps book is a must-have for all history and geography enthusiasts and explorers! \n\nEmbark on a visual tour of the world's finest maps! This fascinating world atlas book: \n\n- Analyses each map visually, with the help of pull-outs and graphic close-up details\n- Traces the history of maps chronologically, providing a fascinating overview of cartography through the ages\n- Tells the story behind each map - why it was created, who it was for, and how it was achieved\n- Profiles key cartographers, explorers, and artists\n- Draws together navigation, propaganda, power, art, and politics through the world's greatest maps\n\nMaps are much more than just geographical data. They are an accurate reflection of the culture and context of different time frames in history. This remarkable geography book puts cartography on the map! It tells the stories behind great maps through stunning pull-out details and reveals how they have helped people make sense of the world. \n\nEmbark on a global adventure of a lifetime with this world map book and see our planet like never before! On this mind-blowing journey, you'll encounter maps that show the way to heaven, depict lands with no sunshine and even the world ocean floor. \n\nWith incredible secret stories from British historian, Jerry Brotton, and insight into how mapmakers have expressed their world views, Great Maps is a welcome addition to any armchair cartographer's bookshelf.
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EAN: 9780192801630
Categoria: Libri e riviste
More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. \n\nThis wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. It guides the reader through the key issues that defined the period, from its art, architecture, and literature, to advancements in the fields of science, trade, and travel. In its incisive account of the\ncomplexities of the political and religious upheavals of the period, the book argues that Europe's reciprocal relationship with its eastern neighbours offers us a timely perspective on the Renaissance that still has much to teach us today. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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Jerry Brotton The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
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Brand: Jerry Brotton
EAN: 9780192801630
Categoria: Libri e riviste
More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but the entire world. \n\nThis wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. It guides the reader through the key issues that defined the period, from its art, architecture, and literature, to advancements in the fields of science, trade, and travel. In its incisive account of the\ncomplexities of the political and religious upheavals of the period, the book argues that Europe's reciprocal relationship with its eastern neighbours offers us a timely perspective on the Renaissance that still has much to teach us today. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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Brand: Jerry Brotton
EAN: 9781780239293
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and Southeast Asia - this book shows how the historical preoccupation with Columbus's `discovery' of the New World of America in 1492 obscured the ongoing importance of mapping territories that have since been defined as `eastern', especially those in the Muslim world.\nIn this book, now available in paperback and updated with a new preface by the author, Jerry Brotton shows that trade and diplomacy defined the development of maps and globes in this period, far more than the disinterested pursuit of scientific accuracy and objectivity, and challenges our preconceptions about not just maps, but also the history and geography of what we call East and West.
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Jerry Brotton Trading Territories: Mapping The Early Modern World
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Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and Southeast Asia - this book shows how the historical preoccupation with Columbus's `discovery' of the New World of America in 1492 obscured the ongoing importance of mapping territories that have since been defined as `eastern', especially those in the Muslim world.\nIn this book, now available in paperback and updated with a new preface by the author, Jerry Brotton shows that trade and diplomacy defined the development of maps and globes in this period, far more than the disinterested pursuit of scientific accuracy and objectivity, and challenges our preconceptions about not just maps, but also the history and geography of what we call East and West.
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Brand: Jerry Brotton
EAN: 9780141034935
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Brotton shows how each of his maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by reading it, we can better understand the worlds that produced it.\n\nAlthough the way we map our surroundings is changing, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been, but that they continue to define, shape and recreate the world. Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.
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Jerry Brotton A History Of The World In Twelve Maps
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EAN: 9780141034935
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Brotton shows how each of his maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by reading it, we can better understand the worlds that produced it.\n\nAlthough the way we map our surroundings is changing, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been, but that they continue to define, shape and recreate the world. Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.
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Brand: Jerry Brotton
EAN: 9780141978673
Categoria: Libri e riviste
WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN\n\nAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4\n\n'Fabulous, timely, a marvellous achievement' Spectator\n\n'A richly resonant work which recasts our understanding of the Elizabethan era' Daily Telegraph\n\nIn 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from Morocco and shipped munitions to Marrakech in the hope of establishing an accord which would keep the common enemy of Catholic Spain at bay. This awareness of the Islamic world found its way into many of the great English cultural productions of the day - especially, of course, Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice. This Orient Isle shows that England's relations with the Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their influence was felt across the political, commercial and domestic landscape of Elizabethan England.
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Jerry Brotton This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England And The Islamic World
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WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN\n\nAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4\n\n'Fabulous, timely, a marvellous achievement' Spectator\n\n'A richly resonant work which recasts our understanding of the Elizabethan era' Daily Telegraph\n\nIn 1570, after plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from Morocco and shipped munitions to Marrakech in the hope of establishing an accord which would keep the common enemy of Catholic Spain at bay. This awareness of the Islamic world found its way into many of the great English cultural productions of the day - especially, of course, Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice. This Orient Isle shows that England's relations with the Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their influence was felt across the political, commercial and domestic landscape of Elizabethan England.
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EAN: 9788807890284
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Nel corso della storia le carte geografiche hanno modellato la nostra visione del mondo e il posto che vi occupiamo. In questo libro, Jerry Brotton sostiene che, lungi dall'essere meri strumenti della scienza, le mappe del mondo sono inevitabilmente descrizioni parziali e soggettive, intimamente legate ai sistemi di potere, all'autorità e alla creatività di tempi e luoghi particolari. I disegnatori di mappe non si limitano a raffigurare il mondo, lo costruiscono sulla base delle idee vigenti nella loro epoca. Questo libro analizza il significato di dodici mappe del mondo riprese dalla storia globale, a partire dalle rappresentazioni mistiche della storia antica e per finire con le immagini di derivazione satellitare contemporanee. Ricrea gli ambienti e le circostanze in cui queste carte sono state fatte, mostrando come ciascuna di esse trasmetta un'immagine estremamente personale del mondo: la prospettiva cristiana centrata su Gerusalemme del \"mappamundi\" di Hereford del XIV secolo; la più antica mappa coreana che mostra la Terra intera, compresa l'Europa; la prima autentica visione del mondo globalizzato del portoghese Diego Ribeiro agli inizi del XVI secolo; la proiezione negli anni Settanta del Novecento che aveva l'ambizione di dare uguale dignità al \"terzo mondo\" e il pianeta secondo Google. Brotton rivela come ogni mappa abbia tanto influenzato quanto riflesso gli eventi contemporanei e come, leggendole, si possano meglio comprendere gli universi che le hanno prodotte.
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Jerry Brotton La Storia Del Mondo In Dodici Mappe
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Brand: Jerry Brotton
EAN: 9788807890284
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Nel corso della storia le carte geografiche hanno modellato la nostra visione del mondo e il posto che vi occupiamo. In questo libro, Jerry Brotton sostiene che, lungi dall'essere meri strumenti della scienza, le mappe del mondo sono inevitabilmente descrizioni parziali e soggettive, intimamente legate ai sistemi di potere, all'autorità e alla creatività di tempi e luoghi particolari. I disegnatori di mappe non si limitano a raffigurare il mondo, lo costruiscono sulla base delle idee vigenti nella loro epoca. Questo libro analizza il significato di dodici mappe del mondo riprese dalla storia globale, a partire dalle rappresentazioni mistiche della storia antica e per finire con le immagini di derivazione satellitare contemporanee. Ricrea gli ambienti e le circostanze in cui queste carte sono state fatte, mostrando come ciascuna di esse trasmetta un'immagine estremamente personale del mondo: la prospettiva cristiana centrata su Gerusalemme del \"mappamundi\" di Hereford del XIV secolo; la più antica mappa coreana che mostra la Terra intera, compresa l'Europa; la prima autentica visione del mondo globalizzato del portoghese Diego Ribeiro agli inizi del XVI secolo; la proiezione negli anni Settanta del Novecento che aveva l'ambizione di dare uguale dignità al \"terzo mondo\" e il pianeta secondo Google. Brotton rivela come ogni mappa abbia tanto influenzato quanto riflesso gli eventi contemporanei e come, leggendole, si possano meglio comprendere gli universi che le hanno prodotte.
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Brand: Jerry Brotton;nick Millea
EAN: 9781851245239
Categoria: Libri e riviste
From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library’s extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers.\n\n \n\n Each map is accompanied by a narrative revealing the story behind how it came to be made and the significance of what it shows. The chronological arrangement highlights how cartography has evolved over the centuries and how it reflects political and social change.\n\n \n\n Showcasing a twelfth-century Arabic map of the Mediterranean, highly decorated portolan charts, military maps, trade maps, a Siberian sealskin map, maps of heaven and hell, C.S. Lewis’s map of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien’s cosmology of Middle-earth and Grayson Perry’s tapestry map, this book is a treasure-trove of cartographical delights spanning over a thousand years.
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Jerry Brotton;nick Millea Fifty Maps And The Stories They Tell
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EAN: 9781851245239
Categoria: Libri e riviste
From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library’s extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers.\n\n \n\n Each map is accompanied by a narrative revealing the story behind how it came to be made and the significance of what it shows. The chronological arrangement highlights how cartography has evolved over the centuries and how it reflects political and social change.\n\n \n\n Showcasing a twelfth-century Arabic map of the Mediterranean, highly decorated portolan charts, military maps, trade maps, a Siberian sealskin map, maps of heaven and hell, C.S. Lewis’s map of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien’s cosmology of Middle-earth and Grayson Perry’s tapestry map, this book is a treasure-trove of cartographical delights spanning over a thousand years.
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Brand: Gribaudo
EAN: 9788858014301
Categoria: Libri e riviste
Le Grandi Mappe - Brotton Jerry - Gribaudo
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Le Grandi Mappe - Brotton Jerry - Gribaudo
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Le Grandi Mappe - Brotton Jerry - Gribaudo
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La Storia Del Mondo In Dodici Mappe - Brotton Jerry - Feltrinelli
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La Storia Del Mondo In Dodici Mappe - Brotton Jerry - Feltrinelli
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La Storia Del Mondo In Dodici Mappe - Brotton Jerry - Feltrinelli
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Brand: Jeremy Brotton;lisa Jardine
EAN: 9781861891662
Categoria: Libri e riviste
In this radical and wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine examine the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically in the years 1450 to 1550. Looking outwards for confirmation of who they were and of what defined them as civilized', Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now call the East, in particular the powerful Ottoman Empire of Mehmed the Conqueror and Suleyman the Magnificent. \"Global Interests\" explores these historical interactions by offering new and exciting accounts of three often neglected art objects: portrait medals, tapestries and equestrian art. The portability of medals and tapestries, and the transportability of, and esteem accorded to, pure-bred Eastern horses made them frequently exchanged objects, and, as such, highly revealing of the cultural currents flowing between Occident and Orient. The authors provide fascinating new responses to some of the most iconic paintings of the period, including the work of Pisanello, Leonardo, Durer, Holbein and Titian.\n\"Global Interests\" also offers a timely reassessment of the development of European imperialism, focusing on the Habsburg Empire of Charles V, and concludes with a consideration of the impact this history continues to have upon contemporary perceptions of European culture and ethnic identity.
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Jeremy Brotton;lisa Jardine Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East And West
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In this radical and wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine examine the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically in the years 1450 to 1550. Looking outwards for confirmation of who they were and of what defined them as civilized', Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now call the East, in particular the powerful Ottoman Empire of Mehmed the Conqueror and Suleyman the Magnificent. \"Global Interests\" explores these historical interactions by offering new and exciting accounts of three often neglected art objects: portrait medals, tapestries and equestrian art. The portability of medals and tapestries, and the transportability of, and esteem accorded to, pure-bred Eastern horses made them frequently exchanged objects, and, as such, highly revealing of the cultural currents flowing between Occident and Orient. The authors provide fascinating new responses to some of the most iconic paintings of the period, including the work of Pisanello, Leonardo, Durer, Holbein and Titian.\n\"Global Interests\" also offers a timely reassessment of the development of European imperialism, focusing on the Habsburg Empire of Charles V, and concludes with a consideration of the impact this history continues to have upon contemporary perceptions of European culture and ethnic identity.
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Anthony Bale A Travel Guide To The Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
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EAN: 9780241530849
Categoria: Libri e riviste
'Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never seen it before' Ian Mortimer\n\n'A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times' Jerry Brotton\n_____________________\n\nA delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it\n\nFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.\n\nUsing previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.\n_____________________\n\n‘Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined . . . a book to be savoured’ Dr Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses\n\n'An enthralling journey into the past and across the world . . . this book takes us to barely imaginable places – but the most remarkable thing we find may be ourselves’ Seb Falk, author of The Light Ages
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'Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never seen it before' Ian Mortimer\n\n'A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times' Jerry Brotton\n_____________________\n\nA delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world, seen through the eyes of those who travelled across it\n\nFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.\n\nUsing previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.\n_____________________\n\n‘Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined . . . a book to be savoured’ Dr Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses\n\n'An enthralling journey into the past and across the world . . . this book takes us to barely imaginable places – but the most remarkable thing we find may be ourselves’ Seb Falk, author of The Light Ages
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Brand: Michael Pye
EAN: 9780241963838
Categoria: Libri e riviste
An epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global hub, this book tells the dazzling history of northern Europe's transformation by sea.\n\n'Pye writes like a dream. Magnificent' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps\n______________\n\nThis is a story of saints and spies, of anglers and pirates, traders and marauders - and of how their wild and daring journeys across the North Sea built the world we know.\n\nWhen the Roman Empire retreated, northern Europe was a barbarian outpost at the very edge of everything. A thousand years later, it was the heart of global empires and the home of science, art, enlightenment and money. We owe this transformation to the tides and storms of the North Sea.\n\nBoats carried food and raw materials, but also new ideas and information. The seafarers raided, ruined and killed, but they also settled and coupled. With them they brought new tastes and technologies - books, science, clothes, paintings and machines. Drawing on an astonishing breadth of learning and packed with human stories and revelations, this is the epic drama of how we came to be who we are.\n______________\n\n'A closely-researched and fascinating characterisation of the richness of life and the underestimated interconnections of the peoples all around the medieval and early modern North Sea' Chris Wickham, author of The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000\n\n'Elegant writing and extraordinary scholarship . . . Miraculous' Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of Periodic Tales and Anatomies\n\n'Bristling, wide-ranged and big-themed . . . at its most meaningful, history involves a good deal of art and storytelling. Pye's book is full of both' Russell Shorto, New York Times\n\n'For anyone, like this reviewer, who is tired of medieval history as a chronicle of kings and kingdoms, knights and ladies, monks and heretics, The Edge of the World provides a welcome respite' Prof Patrick J Geary, Wall Street Journal
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Michael Pye The Edge Of The World: How The North Sea Made Us Who We Are
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Brand: Michael Pye
EAN: 9780241963838
Categoria: Libri e riviste
An epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global hub, this book tells the dazzling history of northern Europe's transformation by sea.\n\n'Pye writes like a dream. Magnificent' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps\n______________\n\nThis is a story of saints and spies, of anglers and pirates, traders and marauders - and of how their wild and daring journeys across the North Sea built the world we know.\n\nWhen the Roman Empire retreated, northern Europe was a barbarian outpost at the very edge of everything. A thousand years later, it was the heart of global empires and the home of science, art, enlightenment and money. We owe this transformation to the tides and storms of the North Sea.\n\nBoats carried food and raw materials, but also new ideas and information. The seafarers raided, ruined and killed, but they also settled and coupled. With them they brought new tastes and technologies - books, science, clothes, paintings and machines. Drawing on an astonishing breadth of learning and packed with human stories and revelations, this is the epic drama of how we came to be who we are.\n______________\n\n'A closely-researched and fascinating characterisation of the richness of life and the underestimated interconnections of the peoples all around the medieval and early modern North Sea' Chris Wickham, author of The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000\n\n'Elegant writing and extraordinary scholarship . . . Miraculous' Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of Periodic Tales and Anatomies\n\n'Bristling, wide-ranged and big-themed . . . at its most meaningful, history involves a good deal of art and storytelling. Pye's book is full of both' Russell Shorto, New York Times\n\n'For anyone, like this reviewer, who is tired of medieval history as a chronicle of kings and kingdoms, knights and ladies, monks and heretics, The Edge of the World provides a welcome respite' Prof Patrick J Geary, Wall Street Journal
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Brand: David Howarth
EAN: 9780300276497
Categoria: Libri e riviste
“Overflowing with surprises.”—William Dalrymple, The Spectator\n\n “Essential reading.”—Dan Jones, Times (UK)\n\n “Fascinating and authoritative.”—Jerry Brotton\n\nThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company—from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the groundwork for future British expansion\n \n The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for new forms of investment, not least in risky overseas enterprises—and for these “adventurers” the most profitable bet of all would be on the Company.\n \n Through a host of stories and fascinating details, David Howarth brings to life the Company’s way of doing business—from the leaky ships and petty seafarers of its embattled early days to later sweeping commercial success. While the Company’s efforts met with disappointment in Japan, they sowed the seeds of success in India, setting the outline for what would later become the Raj. Drawing on an abundance of sources, Howarth shows how competition from European powers was vital to success—and considers whether the Company was truly “English” at all, or rather part of a Europe-wide movement.
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David Howarth Adventurers: The Improbable Rise Of The East India Company: 1550-1650
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Brand: David Howarth
EAN: 9780300276497
Categoria: Libri e riviste
“Overflowing with surprises.”—William Dalrymple, The Spectator\n\n “Essential reading.”—Dan Jones, Times (UK)\n\n “Fascinating and authoritative.”—Jerry Brotton\n\nThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company—from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the groundwork for future British expansion\n \n The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked. The Tudor revolution in commerce led ambitious merchants to search for new forms of investment, not least in risky overseas enterprises—and for these “adventurers” the most profitable bet of all would be on the Company.\n \n Through a host of stories and fascinating details, David Howarth brings to life the Company’s way of doing business—from the leaky ships and petty seafarers of its embattled early days to later sweeping commercial success. While the Company’s efforts met with disappointment in Japan, they sowed the seeds of success in India, setting the outline for what would later become the Raj. Drawing on an abundance of sources, Howarth shows how competition from European powers was vital to success—and considers whether the Company was truly “English” at all, or rather part of a Europe-wide movement.
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Brand: Anthony Bale
EAN: 9780241993408
Categoria: Libri e riviste
‘Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you’ve never seen it before’ Ian Mortimer\n\n‘A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times’ Jerry Brotton\n\n'Wisdom fills the pages of this immensely entertaining history' The New Yorker\n\n_____________________\n\nFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.\n\nUsing previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places. It offers the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world – a world of stories, desire and fantasies, of cherished pasts and longed-for futures.\n_____________________\n\n'Serious scholarship and a sightseer’s unbridled enthusiasm make for fascinating armchair time travel' Observer\n\n‘Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined . . . a book to be savoured’ Dr Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses\n\n‘An enthralling journey into the past and across the world . . . this book takes us to barely imaginable places – but the most remarkable thing we find may be ourselves’ Seb Falk, author of The Light Ages
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Anthony Bale A Travel Guide To The Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
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Brand: Anthony Bale
EAN: 9780241993408
Categoria: Libri e riviste
‘Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you’ve never seen it before’ Ian Mortimer\n\n‘A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times’ Jerry Brotton\n\n'Wisdom fills the pages of this immensely entertaining history' The New Yorker\n\n_____________________\n\nFrom the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.\n\nUsing previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places. It offers the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world – a world of stories, desire and fantasies, of cherished pasts and longed-for futures.\n_____________________\n\n'Serious scholarship and a sightseer’s unbridled enthusiasm make for fascinating armchair time travel' Observer\n\n‘Masterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined . . . a book to be savoured’ Dr Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses\n\n‘An enthralling journey into the past and across the world . . . this book takes us to barely imaginable places – but the most remarkable thing we find may be ourselves’ Seb Falk, author of The Light Ages
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Edmond Smith Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade And Empire, 1550-1650
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Brand: Edmond Smith
EAN: 9780300257953
Categoria: Libri e riviste
WINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE\n\n \"A superb book\"-Jerry Brotton\n\n \"Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched\"-William Dalrymple\n\n \"Sharply observed, innovatively analysed, and always accessible\" -Nandini Das\n\nA new history of English trade and empire-revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain\n\n In the century following Elizabeth I's rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Through the efforts of these \"mere merchants,\" England developed from a peripheral power on the fringes of Europe to a country at the center of a global commercial web, with interests stretching from Virginia to Ahmadabad and Arkhangelsk to Benin.\n \n Edmond Smith traces the lives of English merchants from their earliest steps into business to the heights of their successes. Smith unpicks their behavior, relationships, and experiences, from exporting wool to Russia, importing exotic luxuries from India, and building plantations in America. He reveals that the origins of \"global\" Britain are found in the stories of these men whose livelihoods depended on their skills, entrepreneurship, and ability to work together to compete in cutthroat international markets. As a community, their efforts would come to revolutionize Britain's relationship with the world.
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EAN: 9780300257953
Categoria: Libri e riviste
WINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE\n\n \"A superb book\"-Jerry Brotton\n\n \"Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched\"-William Dalrymple\n\n \"Sharply observed, innovatively analysed, and always accessible\" -Nandini Das\n\nA new history of English trade and empire-revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain\n\n In the century following Elizabeth I's rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Through the efforts of these \"mere merchants,\" England developed from a peripheral power on the fringes of Europe to a country at the center of a global commercial web, with interests stretching from Virginia to Ahmadabad and Arkhangelsk to Benin.\n \n Edmond Smith traces the lives of English merchants from their earliest steps into business to the heights of their successes. Smith unpicks their behavior, relationships, and experiences, from exporting wool to Russia, importing exotic luxuries from India, and building plantations in America. He reveals that the origins of \"global\" Britain are found in the stories of these men whose livelihoods depended on their skills, entrepreneurship, and ability to work together to compete in cutthroat international markets. As a community, their efforts would come to revolutionize Britain's relationship with the world.
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Brand: David Rooney
EAN: 9780241370513
Categoria: Libri e riviste
'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps\n\n'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping itself' Richard Holmes\n\nThe measurement of time has always been essential to human civilization, from early Roman sundials to the advent of GPS. But while we have one eye on the time every day, are we aware of the power clocks have given governments, military leaders and business owners, and how they have shaped our lives and our world?\n\nIn this spectacularly far-reaching book, David Rooney narrates a history of timekeeping and civilization in twelve concise chapters. Over their course, we meet the most epochal inventions in horological history, from medieval water clocks to Renaissance hourglasses, and from stock-exchange timestamps to satellites in Earth's orbit. We discover how clocks have helped people navigate the globe and build empires, but also, on occasion, taken us to the brink of destruction.\n\nThis is the story of time, and the story of time is the story of us.
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David Rooney About Time: A History Of Civilization In Twelve Clocks
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Brand: David Rooney
EAN: 9780241370513
Categoria: Libri e riviste
'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps\n\n'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping itself' Richard Holmes\n\nThe measurement of time has always been essential to human civilization, from early Roman sundials to the advent of GPS. But while we have one eye on the time every day, are we aware of the power clocks have given governments, military leaders and business owners, and how they have shaped our lives and our world?\n\nIn this spectacularly far-reaching book, David Rooney narrates a history of timekeeping and civilization in twelve concise chapters. Over their course, we meet the most epochal inventions in horological history, from medieval water clocks to Renaissance hourglasses, and from stock-exchange timestamps to satellites in Earth's orbit. We discover how clocks have helped people navigate the globe and build empires, but also, on occasion, taken us to the brink of destruction.\n\nThis is the story of time, and the story of time is the story of us.
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