Global History and New Polycentric Approaches : Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perez Garcia, Manuel.
Other Authors: De Sousa, Lucio.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History Series
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505 0 |a Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Current Challenges of Global History in East Asian Historiographies -- References -- Part I Escaping from National Narratives: The New Global History in China and Japan -- Global History, the Role of Scientific Discovery and the 'Needham Question': Europe and China in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Joseph Needham and His Science and Civilisation in China -- 3 The Development of Science and 'the Needham Question' -- 3.1 Material Factors: Physical Environment and Economics -- 3.2 Non-Material Factors: Philosophy and Culture -- 4 Is the Needham Question Worth Asking? -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- RETRACTED CHAPTER: Encounter and Coexistence: Portugal and Ming China 1511-1610: Rethinking the Dynamics of a Century of Global-Local Relations -- Challenging National Narratives: On the Origins of Sweet Potato in China as Global Commodity During the Early Modern Period -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Towards a New National Narrative: The Evolution on Studies of Sweet Potato in Chinese Historiography -- 3 The Origin of Sweet Potato in China -- 3.1 Introduction: The Timing and Route of Sweet Potato -- 3.2 The Distribution of Sweet Potato -- 4 The Influence of Sweet Potato on Agricultural Production and the Social Economy -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Economic Depression and the Silver Question in Nineteenth-Century China -- 1 Measuring Economic Performance: GDP and Real Wages -- 2 Population, Prices and Money Supply -- 3 The Silver Question -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Kaiiki-Shi and World/Global History: A Japanese Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Earlier Works -- 3 The Emergence of Kaiiki-Shi -- 4 Kaiiki-Shi in KAKENHI Projects and the Terminology of 'Kaiiki'. 
505 8 |a 5 The Booming of Kaiiki-Shi -- 6 Potentials and Limits: The Dilemma of Kaiiki-Shi -- 7 Conclusion -- Part II Trade Networks and Maritime Expansion in East Asian Studies -- The Structure and Transformation of the Ming Tribute Trade System -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Temporal Transformation of the Ming Tributary Trade System -- 3 The First Period: 1368-1402 -- 4 The Second Period: 1403-1435 -- 5 The Third Period: 1436-1464 -- 6 The Fourth Period: 1465-1509 -- 7 The Fifth Period: 1510-1539 -- 8 The Sixth Period: 1540-1566 -- 9 The Formation and Structure of the '1570 System' -- 10 Conclusion -- References -- The Nanban and Shuinsen Trade in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Japan -- 1 Background to the Nanban Trade -- 2 The Dispersion of Portuguese Merchants -- 3 The Nanban (Southeast Asian) Trade in the Age of Civil Wars -- 4 Merchants at the Time of the Opening of Nagasaki Port -- 5 The Life of a Christian Merchant -- 6 Japanese Religious Culture and the Jesuit's Response -- 7 Early Nagasaki Headmen and Trade -- 8 The Jesuits and Nanban Trade -- 9 The Mutual Complementarity of the Portuguese Ships and Shuinsen -- 10 Portuguese Merchants Living in Nagasaki -- 11 Christians and Southeast Asia -- 12 Conclusion -- References -- The Jewish Presence in China and Japan in the Early Modern Period: A Social Representation -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Sephardic Presence in Macau -- 2.1 The First Community of Sephardic Origin in Macau -- 2.2 The General Pardon of 1605 and the Revolts of the Judeo-Conversos in Macau in 1611 -- 3 The Sephardic Presence in Japan -- 3.1 Judeo-Conversos and the Society of Jesus in China and Japan -- 3.2 The Community of Sephardic Origin in Nagasaki -- 4 Cognitive Perceptions of Judeo-Conversos in China and Japan in the Early Modern Period: The Perez Family Case -- 5 Conclusion. 
505 8 |a References -- Quantifying Ocean Currents as Story Models: Global Oceanic Currents and Their Introduction to Global Navigation -- 1 The Charts of the Currents, or What This Work Is Designed to Illustrate as Follows -- 2 Embarking from Qualitative to Quantitative Sciences -- 3 Practices of Data Collection and Knowledge Production -- 4 Changes in Scientific Values and the Perception of Nature -- 5 Models Are Stories: Shifts in Narratives -- 6 Enlarged Descriptions and Details of Several Conclusions -- References -- Part III Circulation of Technology and Commodities in the Atlantic and Pacific -- Global History and the History of Consumption: Congruence and Divergence -- 1 The Early Modern Consumer Revolution -- 2 The objects of Consumption -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Mexican Cochineal, Local Technologies and the Rise of Global Trade from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries -- 1 The Oaxaca Indian Communities, Rural Technology and the Secular Production of Cochineal -- 2 American Dyes and Their Role in Textile Protoglobalization -- 3 Conclusions -- References -- Social Networks and the Circulation of Technology and Knowledge in the Global Spanish Empire -- 1 Iberia and the Empire: Channels of Knowledge -- 2 Agents and Networks -- 3 Empire, Control of Knowledge and Globalization -- References -- Global Commodities in Early Modern Spain -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Source, Commodities and Consumers -- 3 Colonial Household Purchases in Madrid: From America to Asia -- 4 Content and Containers -- 5 Concluding Remarks: Global Products -- References -- Big History as a Commodity at Chinese Universities: A Study in Circulation -- 1 Consuming Commodification -- 2 Student Response -- 3 From Global to Big -- 4 Conclusion: Tying the Threads Together -- References. 
505 8 |a Correction to: Introduction: Current Challenges of Global History in East Asian Historiographies -- Correction to: Chapter 1 in: M. Perez Garcia and L. de Sousa (eds.), Global History and New Polycentric Approaches, Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History, &lt -- ExternalRef&gt -- &lt -- RefSource&gt -- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4053-5_1&lt -- /RefSource&gt -- &lt -- RefTarget -- Index. 
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