1616 (ePub)
The World in Motion
(Sprache: Englisch)
The world of 1616 was a world of motion. Enormous galleons carrying silk and silver across the Pacific created the first true global economy, and the first international megacorporations were emerging as economic powers. In Europe, the deaths of Shakespeare...
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The world of 1616 was a world of motion. Enormous galleons carrying silk and silver across the Pacific created the first true global economy, and the first international megacorporations were emerging as economic powers. In Europe, the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes marked the end of an era in literature, as the spirit of the Renaissance was giving way to new attitudes that would lead to the Age of Revolution. Great changes were also taking place in East Asia, where the last native Chinese dynasty was entering its final years and Japan was beginning its long period of warrior rule. Artists there, as in many parts of the world, were rethinking their connections to ancient traditions and experimenting with new directions. Women everywhere were redefining their roles in family and society. Slave trading was relocating large numbers of people, while others were migrating in search of new opportunities. The first tourists, traveling not for trade or exploration but for personal fulfillment, were exploring this new globalized world.
Autoren-Porträt von Thomas Christensen
Thomas Christensen's books include 1616: The World in Motion, New World/New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas, A Bilingual Anthology, The U.S.-Mexican War, and The Discovery of America and Other Myths as well as translations of books by such authors as Laura Esquivel, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Alejo Carpentier, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. He is director of publications at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and lives with his wife in Richmond, California.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Thomas Christensen
- 2012, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: CATAPULT
- ISBN-10: 1619020467
- ISBN-13: 9781619020467
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2012
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“One of those unconventional, unclassifiable, uniquely pleasurable histories that seems to take a narrow path but opens into a fresh, vivid, expansive understanding of a historical moment.” —Dallas Morning News“A delight, an adventure, a reading and visual treat of the first order. Once you hold it in your hands, and the sumptuous, well-chosen illustrations fall open, its . . . price-tag will seem like a bargain.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Careful to include events from around the world, not just Europe and the Americas, Christensen enhances his excellent explications of backgrounds and settings with dozens of fabulous illustrations. Most readers will want an atlas to track the action.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“Christensen is no slouch when it comes to writing page-turning nonfiction . . . [He] manages to portray and connect disparate events with remarkable cogency . . . He has a wonderful way of juxtaposing his facts so that the ironies often present in human behavior shine through.” —The Foreword
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