Author: Nathaniel Parker
Publisher: Hamlyn (UK)
ISBN: 9780600589662
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Serge Gruzinski
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745681344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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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.

Author: English Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Sarah Beth Durst
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544707346
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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The traditional Emperor’s Journey is meant to be uneventful. But as the princesses Seika and Ji-Lin—twin sisters—travel to pay respects to their kingdom’s dragon guardian, unexpected monsters appear and tremors shake the earth. The Hidden Islands face unprecedented threats, and the old rituals are failing. With only their strength, ingenuity, and flying lion to rely on, can the sisters find a new way to keep their people safe?

Author: Douglas Botting
Publisher:
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Category : Arabs
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Florence Joanne Reid
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514456176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Isle of the Dragons Where once there was only one golden dragon, now there are twelve golden queen dragons. Only half are old enough to mate, but over five years they created a covey of nearly two hundred dragons. That was enough to have a dozen squadron leaders. The war at Thanos is over, thank all the Gods, but the war at Wylche is heating up. Dragons, taller than a horse, with sharp teeth and breathing fire, are used to scare the southern army men into running. But skirmishes happen; men are killed, injured, and laid up for a time. There is a prophecy come down from the Seven Gods that Zandrax will do something drastic to cause the Wylche Royal Castle to crumble, raise a mountain, and the Gods will use it to create a new Royal Castle atop the mountain for the new Dragon Lord. Prince Leander fears his father will die and that new Dragon Lord will be him. How will Zandrax pull down a castle the Seven Gods installed eons ago? Close to the end of the war King Philipi disappeared. Where? Royal Castle? Will Zandrax appear there? Can Philipi shoot him full of his tiny poison darts from his mini crossbow? Will he have the strength? And what will Zandrax do next? And will his flying horse (Grogan, the shape-changing demon) carry him? Deliver him safely? Or dump him? Will Zandrax be able to carry out his evil diabolical plot?

Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1270

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Author: Michaēl D. Volonakēs
Publisher:
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Category : Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: Alan Rabinowitz
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Zoologist and adventurer Rabinowitz recounts his two-year odyssey tracking leopards and exotic wildlife through the fragile forests of Thailand. Poachers, fire ants, and elephant stampedes all add excitement to the author's Indiana Jones-like life, as he struggles to understand Thai culture and fights to reconcile his western values with the many contradictions he discovers in the "land of smiles". Photographs.