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This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.
First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.
Explores the relationship between long-distance trade and the economic and political structure of southern India.
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Esta importante obra muestra excelentes trabajos que versan sobre los Santos de la Universidad de Salamanca. Con gran originalidad pone de manifiesto el vínculo de la Universidad con una forma de vida en un inicio estrechamente ligada a la vida cristiana, dividida por aquel entonces entre la vida diocesana y monástica. Se reflejan las tradiciones cristianas que se remontan a las primeras comuni¬dades que, tras el reconocimiento de la religión cristiana como religión lícita con el edicto de Milán (en el año 313) y su posterior conversión en religión oficial del imperio romano, volvieron a recuperar el sentido de sacrificio que Cristo mismo asumió en la Cruz. Y optaron inicialmente ...
This book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the Persian Gulf at a time of major political change, when the successive arrivals of the European "trading empires" had just begun. The study emphasises the role of the local elites and how they manipulated and used the European administrative structures for their own gain. The book also delves into various aspects of the governance of ports. Based on a wide variety of sources, including unpublished information from Dutch and Portuguese archives, it makes clear that the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman were an integrated part of the Indian Ocean network of trade, culture, migration, and politics. Despite that interconnectedness ...