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The Eagle and the Dragon - Globalization and Europe an Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Eagle and the Dragon - Globalization and Europe an Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
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In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski
returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a
decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico
experienced the expansion of Europe. In the early 1520s, Magellan
set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and
some Portuguese based in Malacca dreamed of colonizing China. The
Aztec Eagle was destroyed but the Chinese Dragon held strong and
repelled the invaders - after first seizing their cannon. For the
first time, people from three continents encountered one other,
confronted one other and their lives became entangled. These events
were of great interest to contemporaries and many people at the
time grasped the magnitude of what was going on around them. The
Iberians succeeded in America and failed in China. The New World
became inseparable from the Europeans who were to conquer it, while
the Celestial Empire became, for a long time to come, an
unattainable goal. Gruzinski explores this encounter between
civilizations that were different from one another but that already
fascinated contemporaries, and he shows that our world today bears
the mark of this distant age. For it was in the sixteenth century
that human history began to be played out on a global stage. It was
then that connections between different parts of the world began to
accelerate, not only between Europe and the Americas but also
between Europe and China. This is what is revealed by a global
history of the sixteenth century, conceived as another way of
reading the Renaissance, less Eurocentric and more in tune with our
age.
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