"Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity" write by Catherine Pagani. This book was released on 2001. "Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries
"Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity"
"Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity" write by Catherine Pagani. This book was released on 1993. "Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
British Art and the East India Company
British Art and the East India Company - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Art and the East India Company write by Geoff Quilley. This book was released on 2020. British Art and the East India Company available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the commercial state. This book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a new "school" of British art was in its formative stages with the foundation of exhibiting societies and the Royal Academy in 1768. It focuses on the Company's patronage, promotion and uses of art, both in Britain and in India and the Far East, and how the Company and its trade with the East were represented visually, through maritime imagery, landscape, genre painting and print-making. It also considers how, for artists such as William Hodges and Arthur William Devis, the East India Company, and its provision of a wealthy market in British India, provided opportunities for career advancement, through alignment with Company commercial principles. In this light, the book's main concern is to address the conflicted and ambiguous nature of art produced in the service of a corporation that was the "scandal of empire" for most of its existence, and how this has shaped and distorted our understanding of the history of British art in relation to the concomitant rise of Britain as a self-consciously commercial and maritime nation, whose prosperity relied upon global expansion, increasing colonialism and the development of mercantile organisations.
Science In China, 1600-1900: Essays By Benjamin A Elman
Science In China, 1600-1900: Essays By Benjamin A Elman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science In China, 1600-1900: Essays By Benjamin A Elman write by Benjamin A Elman. This book was released on 2015-05-07. Science In China, 1600-1900: Essays By Benjamin A Elman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Distinguished historian Benjamin A Elman's collective volume on the history of science in imperial China, brings together over 30 years of historical literature on the subject. With updates to the literature and new material including transcripts of podcasts and translated interview articles, Science in China takes the reader on a journey starting in the early 17th century with the missionary efforts of the Jesuits in China, and ending with the Protestant missions in the 19th century. These two milestone encounters brought Western sciences to local Chinese scholars with great success in shaping modern Chinese science. Elman studies the interaction between Western and Chinese sciences through philological research and evidence, and treats the two encounters not as separate events but as a continuum of creative exchange of scientific knowledge and discourse.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 write by Hamish Scott. This book was released on 2015-07-23. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of 'early modernity' itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume II is devoted to 'Cultures and Power', opening with chapters on philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment. Subsequent sections examine 'Europe beyond Europe', with the transformation of contact with other continents during the first global age, and military and political developments, notably the expansion of state power.
