Global History and New Polycentric Approaches Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System
Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies,...
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| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
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Basingstoke
Springer Nature
2018
Springer Singapore Palgrave Macmillan |
| Edition | 1 |
| Series | Palgrave studies in Comparative Global History (PASTCGH) |
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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'
- 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 -- Index
- 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