Timothy Brook

Mr Selden's Map of China

The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea

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Produktbeschreibung

Forensic history at its best: an ancient map reveals the origins of world trade, and surprising twists in China's history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781781250396
• ISBN-10: 1781250391
• Artikelnr.: 41596895

Autorenporträt

A native of Toronto, Timothy Brook has taught Chinese history at the University of British Columbia since 2004. He was appointed Shaw Professor of Chinese at Oxford in 2007, but returned to UBC in 2009, where he holds the Republic of China Chair in UBC's Institute of Asian Research. An honorary professor of East China Normal University in Shanghai, he holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick. Primarily a historian of the 16th and 17th centuries, Brook also works on Japan's wartime occupation of China and human rights in contemporary China. He has written eight books and edited nine, in addition to serving as editor-in-chief of the six-volume History of Imperial China from Harvard University Press. Profile published his most widely read book, Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global Age, in 2008. It was awarded the Mark Lynton Prize from the Columbia School of Journalism and the Prix Auguste Pavie from the Académie des Sciences d'Outre-mer, Paris, and has been translated into a dozen languages. Brook lives on Salt Spring Island with his wife, Fay Sims. Their four children are spread from Vancouver to New York.

Rezensionen

The quest is fascinating and picaresque, a sort of cartographical Tristram Shandy with a sure-handed narrator steering us from Ming dynasty China to pre-Civil War Oxford to the Spice Islands of South-East Asia. Rana Mitter Sunday Telegraph