{"product_id":"the-eagle-and-the-dragon-9780745667119","title":"The Eagle and the Dragon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and some Portuguese based in Malacca dreamed of colonizing China. The Aztec Eagle was destroyed but the Chinese Dragon held strong and repelled the invaders - after first seizing their cannon. For the first time, people from three continents encountered one other, confronted one other and their lives became entangled. These events were of great interest to contemporaries and many people at the time grasped the magnitude of what was going on around them. The Iberians succeeded in America and failed in China. The New World became inseparable from the Europeans who were to conquer it, while the Celestial Empire became, for a long time to come, an unattainable goal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"A groundbreaking study… a feat of scholarship with striking and far reaching interpretations.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsian Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Serge Gruzinski has made a brilliant contribution to the new genre of “connected” history in this study, which contrasts the successful conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards with the failure of Portuguese attempts to colonize China.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeter Burke\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 - Two tranquil worlds\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 - Openness to the world\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 - Because the world is round\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 - A leap into the unknown?\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 - Books and letters from the other end of the world\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 - Embassy or conquest?\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 - The clash of civilizations\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 - Naming the other\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 - A story of cannon\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 - Opacity or transparency?\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11 - The greatest cities in the world\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12 - The Hour of the crime\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13 - The Place of the Whites\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14 - To everyone their own post-war\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15 - The secrets of the South Sea\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16 - China on the horizon\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17 - When China awakes\u003cbr\u003eConclusion - Towards a global history of the Renaissance\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404414361943,"sku":"9780745667119","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745667119.jpg?v=1730486397","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-eagle-and-the-dragon-9780745667119","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}