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Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at ...Show more
Mr Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea by Timothy Brook
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an ...Show more
Vermeer's Hat : The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world by Timothy Brook
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In one painting, a Dutch military officer leans toward a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. In a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a Turkish carpet. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur, which European explorers got from Native Americans in ex ...Show more
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