1688 by Wills, John E ISBN 1862074135
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A highly unusual approach to history - examines what was happening all over the world in just one year: 1688.
'The historian seeking to sketch a world tries not to be confined by any style, any set of questions but to follow hunches, to let one thing lead to another... he hopes to avoid a system and to put before his reader many pictures of a world, reflecting the unconfineable variety, splendor, and strangeness of the human condition.' 1688 Richly informative and entertaining, 1688: A Global History is the work of a historian as familiar with 17th century Japan and Indonesia as he is with the London of William II and the Versailles of Louis XIV. It is a very unusual book - a sweeping narrative of different cultures being drawn together by the pull of trade and violence: a world where spices, silver and slaves made fortunes and ruined lives. The reader is taken on an extraordinary journey around the world, through Russia, where tsar Peter is about to launch a coup that will change his country's history for ever; to the splendid court of the Sun King in France; to Mexico; to the Sonora desert of North America, where a Jesuit priest and his tribe of Pima Indian converts are about to discover California; to Manila, Jamaica, Australia, South Africa, Siam and to England, where a Dutch king lands in Dorset to begin the Glorious Revolution and fashion the state under which we still live.
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1688
[edit] Author
Wills, John E
[edit] ISBN
1862074135
[edit] Published
30/01/2001
[edit] Publisher
Granta Books
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HARDBACK
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20 (GBP)
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20 (GBP)
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