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1688 - die Welt am Vorabend der Globalisierung. Was geschieht in Afrika, in Asien, in Europa, in Amerika? Neue Mächte betreten die politische Bühne, die Wissenschaften und Künste blühen auf. Gemeinsam mit John Wills schauen wir Ludwig XIV. und Peter dem Großen über die Schulter, graben uns durch mexikanische Silberminen, begleiten Muslime auf der Pilgerfahrt nach Mekka, segeln in die Welthauptstadt Batavia, beobachten fromme Russen bei religi...

Does our understanding of China's long and complex history of foreign relations help us to understand the rapidly changing involvement of China in the twenty-first century world? This many-sided volume offers a remarkable variety of approaches to these issues.

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This book, the sixth volume in the chronological set of the world history series, traces the interwoven changes that led from the world of Columbus, Luther, and the Mughal emperor Babur to the world of Locke, Louis XIV, and the Kangxi Emperor. Wills encourages his readers to think about the origins of our modern world in ways that acknowledge the special features of the European experience and achievement but do not present Europe as essential...

This book, the sixth volume in the chronological set of the world history series, traces the interwoven changes that led from the world of Columbus, Luther, and the Mughal emperor Babur to the world of Locke, Louis XIV, and the Kangxi Emperor. Wills encourages his readers to think about the origins of our modern world in ways that acknowledge the special features of the European experience and achievement but do not present Europe as essential...

John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice of the haiku poet Basho. Witness the splendor of the Chinese imperial court as the Kangxi emperor publicly mourns the death of his grandmother and shrewdly consolidates his power. Join the great caravans of Muslims on their annual pilgrimage from Damascus and Cairo to Mecca. Walk the pungent streets ...

A high-spirited idealist who craved excitement when he enlisted in the Eighth Illinois Volunteers for three months and reenlisted for three years, Wills, of Canton, Illinois, wrote frequently to his sister Mary Emily Wills and kept a diary of General William T. Sherman's campaigns during the last year of the war. A student and store clerk before enlisting, Wills found that army life "beats clerking". He enlisted as a private at the age of twen...

China and Maritime Europe, 1500 1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection.