The eagle and the dragon : globalization and European dreams of conquest in China and America in the sixteenth century / Serge Gruzinski ; translated by Jean Birrell.

• Introduction -- Two tranquil worlds -- Openness to the world -- Because the world is round -- A leap into the unknown? -- Books and letters from the other end of the world -- Embassy or conquest? -- The clash of civilizations -- Naming the other -- A story of cannon -- Opacity or transparency? -- The greatest cities in the world -- The hour of the crime -- The place of the whites -- To everyone their own post-war -- The secrets of the south sea -- China on the horizon -- When china awakes -- Conclusion -- towards a global history of the renaissance.

Ämnesord

Historia  (sao)

Upptäcktshistoria  (sao)

History, Modern  -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Civilization  -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Discoveries in geography  -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

History  (LCSH)

Discoveries in geography  (LCSH)

1500-talet  (sao)

1500 - 1599  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

D228 (LCC)

909.5 (DDC)

K.41 (kssb/8 (machine generated))