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Overcoming Ptolemy
Studies on global metageography are enjoying a revival, and in no way is this better referenced than against the geo-world system bequeathed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago. This is all the more important when we consider the longevity of the Ptolemaic construct through and beyond the European age of discovery allowing as well for its eventual revision or refinement. Innovations in navigational science, cartographic representations, and textual description are all called upon to illustrate this theme. With its focus upon the macro-region termed India Extra Gangem, literally the space between India and China, the book unfolds a fourfold agenda. First, it explains the Ptolema...
Remapping the World in East Asia
When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of new artifacts that mitigated old and new knowledge in creative ways. Simultaneously, missionaries and their collaborators transcribed, replicated, and recombined from East Asian artifacts and informed European audiences about the newly discovered lands known as the “Far East.” All these new artifacts enjoyed long afterlives that ensured the continuous remapping of the world in the fo...
Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia
This collection brings together studies on vernacular manuscripts in regional Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien (South Fujian dialect), those of non-Han peoples in China and Southeast Asia such as the Zhuang and Yao, and a vernacular character manuscript in Vietnamese. Across this wide range, the focus is on manuscripts written in regional and vernacular adaptations of the Chinese script. Three chapters on Yao manuscripts each focus on a different aspect of their use in local society or on collections of Yao manuscripts in overseas collections; there are three chapters on Zhuang and related Tai languages; two studies on Hokkien; one on the Cantonese script in contemporary Hong K...
The Woodbine Parish Report on the Revolutions in South America (1822)
This book presents the unpublished intelligence report “South America”, written in 1822 by Woodbine Parish, clerk at the Foreign Office, Castlereagh's private secretary and later the first British Consul to Buenos Aires. The document is transcribed, analysed and fully contextualised in order to foreground its decisive historical significance. The aim of Parish’s report was to outline British foreign policy and political strategy towards the South American revolutions at the final Congress of the Holy Alliance, held in Verona. Its publication contributes to the ongoing debates on Informal Empire, providing new empirical evidence that will enable us to better understand the social conten...
Corruption and Justice in Colonial Mexico, 1650–1755
Provides the first detailed analysis of the evolution of the concept of corruption in colonial Mexico.
Selden Map與東西洋唐人 : 地理知識與世界景象的探索（1500－1620）
在英國牛津大學的Bodleian圖書館裡，收藏一幅東亞古地圖，被遺忘了數百年，直到2008年才被「重新發現」，在國際學界頗受關注，此即本書討論的Selden Map。全圖長約1.5公尺，寬1公尺，內容渉及明朝中國、日本、臺灣以及現今的東南亞各地。 全圖有著中國傳統地圖的華麗風格，也有西方地圖對準確性的重視。本書系统性地分析全圖各個局部的描繪與知識來源，指出繪者應是菲律賓群島的唐人，全圖繪製於1610年代，呈現十七世紀唐人眼中的世界圖像，而這種圖像是十六世紀以來東亞海域各種勢力互動、交流下的產物。
Shaping Neutrality Throughout the First World War
The neutral status in the Great War turned out to be a transformative reality as the conflict itself, acquiring top political importance from its origins. As shown by most of the compiled works in this book, the dilemma between neutrality and belligerency shaped national self-identities and collective emotions long after the war ended.
熟識阿姆个話─巴色差會傳教士與客家（hakka）的邂逅
本書從聯合國世界記憶計畫所傳達世界上少數族群語言之特殊與人類珍貴的共同價值，以及客語推廣的角度出發，記述19世紀西方傳教士及教會記錄典存客語史料的歷史，以淺顯易懂的筆法，讓一般大眾都能夠瞭解客語的趣味與獨特性及客語文化保存的重要性。
El papel del cacao en la historia del Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada y en los inicios republicanos, 1717-1830
Cecilia Restrepo Fuse. Bogotá, arqueóloga de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México, con postgrado en Historia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Miembro correspondiente de la Academia Colombiana de Historia e investigadora de www.historiacocina.com. Algunas de sus publicaciones son: Nacho un niño del barrio de la Catedral. Historia de barrio y vida cotidiana; De la sala al comedor. Anécdotas y recetas bogotanas; y La alimentación en la vida cotidiana del Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. 1653- 1900. Rosa Isabel Zarama Rincón. Pasto, Doctora en Historia. Socia correspondiente de la Academia Nariñense de Historia. Especialista en el actual departamento de Nariño, desde la Colonia hasta principios del siglo XX. Temas de interés: vida cotidiana, historia de los objetos, historia de los oficios (cargueros, tejedores y escribanos), religiosas Conceptas, mujeres intelectuales y cocina tradicional. Autora de tres libros de Historia, uno en coautoría con Benhur Cerón y de cuarenta y dos escritos entre capítulos de libros y artículos publicados en Colom bia, España, México, Venezuela y Ecuador
