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Articles by Timothy Brook
The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
Price rises can be a sign of political end times. I remember being in the USSR (as it still was, just) in the summer of 1991 and becoming aware that a fistful of soiled rouble notes would buy very little compared to a few crisp green US dollars. A half-century previously, the Chinese who lived through the revolution of 1949 also saw price rises as a clear indication that their world was falling apart.
Vermeer's Hat: A Fascinating Journey through Time and Culture
Chapter 1 What’s Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook “Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World” is a book written by Timothy Brook. It explores the global connections and networks that existed during the 17th century, as seen through the lens of the renowned Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and his works.
School Advisory Committee
SHSS engages highly respected scholars and academic leaders from overseas to offer advice on its status, strengths, challenges, and future positioning. Prof. Timothy Brook Emeritus Professor of History The University of British Columbia Prof. Helen Siu Professor of Anthropology and former chair of the Council on East Asian Studies Yale University Professor of Sociology; Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development and FSI Senior Fellow Stanford University
China, el gran Estado
Al contrario que otros países, la historia de China relata la constante reunificación nacional en un solo territorio. En ‘El gran Estado’ (Alianza Editorial), Timothy Brook desgrana la historia del poder más fuerte de Asia. ¿QUIERES COLABORAR CON ETHIC? Si quieres apoyar el periodismo de calidad y comprometido puedes hacerte socio de Ethic y recibir en tu casa los 4 números en papel que editamos al año a partir de una cuota mínima de 30 euros, (IVA y gastos de envío a ESPAÑA incluidos).
Comparative pandemics: the Tudor–Stuart and Wanli–Chongzhen years of pestilence, 1567–1666 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2020 Keywords comparative historyEmperor WanliElizabeth IMing Chinapandemicplague Type Articles Information Journal of Global History , Volume 15 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Pandemics that Changed the World. Historical Reflections on COVID-19 , November 2020 , pp. 363 - 379 Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press References 1 1 Examples from the current pandemic: Timothy Brook, ‘Blame China?
GREAT STATE | Kirkus Reviews
A Canadian scholar of Chinese history offers a fresh look at China’s engagement with the outside world over centuries in the form of 13 illustrative stories. In this academic yet mostly accessible work, Brook makes two significant revisionist arguments about China and its history.
Limitless Empire
Now that the long-term confrontation between China and an assortment of countries – Australia, Japan, the US, Vietnam and other less committed fellow travellers (including the UK) – is well underway, interest in Chinese doings and undoings in the past as well as the present has further increased.
Cold Warriors - Duncan White - Hardcover
A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War. During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to exile, imprisonment or execution if they offended those in power.
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present
National Book Award Finalist "A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." — William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.
Great State - Timothy Brook - Hardcover
The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer’s Hat does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in SPQR: Timothy Brook analyzes the last eight centuries of China’s relationship with the world in this magnificent history that brings together accounts from civil servants, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, migrant workers, invaders, visionaries, and traitors—creating a multifaceted portrait of this highly misunderstood nation.
De kaart van mijnheer Selden
In 2008 werd in de beroemde Bodleian Library te Oxford een raadselachtige kaart teruggevonden. De kaart was er in 1659 terechtgekomen uit de nalatenschap van John Selden, advocaat, politicus en Engelands eerste oriëntalist, en vervolgens 350 jaar vergeten. Toen historicus Timothy Brook de kaart onder ogen kreeg, besefte hij meteen dat hier een puzzel lag die opgelost moest worden.
The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world: Amazon.co.uk: Timothy Brook: 9781846681202: Books
I had never even heard of this book until it turned up as the suggestion for the next read in our local book group. This was the second book that was chosen as the first book which was all about Vermeer is no longer in print.
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