Global History and New Polycentric Approaches : Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System.
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Singapore :
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2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History Series
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Table of Contents:
- 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'.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, <
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