To know more in depth
For those of you who want to learn more in depth, or who want to have some web resources at hand, I have prepared a selection of web resources related to the different units.
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Week 5. Unit 1. The memory of Zheng He’s voyages
Look at a video
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Ancient Chinese Treasure Fleet:China discovered the World
National Geographic Photographer, Michael Yamashita.----- ----- ----- ----- -----
Week 5. Unit 2. The world in maps
Browse a website
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Fra Mauro’s map
Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art. British Library. -
Fra Mauro World map (link provided by Isabelle Tett)
Magnificent maps
Look at a video
- Fra Mauro’s map of the world
National Library of Australia.
Read an article
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Cattaneo, Angelo, Europe on late Medieval and early Renaissance world maps: provincializing Europe
6th International BIMCC Conference, 2007 -
Chin, Ch’üan and Hui, Li, The Kangnido
Time Charts of Cartography -
Fra Mauro’s map
Cartographic Images -
O’Doherty, Marianne, Fra Mauro’s World Map (c. 1448-1449): Mapping, Mediation and the Indian Ocean World (link provided by Isabelle Tett)
University of Southampton -
The Genoese map
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Week 5. Unit 3. The Portuguese arrival
Look at a video
- Michel Brooks, Portuguese Seaborne Empire
Read an article
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FINLAY, Robert, Portuguese and Chinese Maritime Imperialism: Camoes’s Lusiads and Luo Maodeng’s ‘Voyage of the San Bao eunuch’ (link provided by Helen Healy)
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Week 5. Unit 4. The Portuguese settlement in China
Browse a website
- Look in detail at a Namban screen
Encompassing the Globe. Portugal and the world in the 16th and 17th centuries
Read an article
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Antony, Robert, Piracy in early Modern China
IIAS Newsletter #36, March 2005 -
Flynn, Dennis O and Giraldez, Arturo, Silk for Silver: Manila-Macao Trade in the 17th Century
Philippine Studies, vol. 44, nº1, 1996, pp. 52-68.
eBooks: Kindle Edition
This bibliography only includes e-Books. The link for each book enables you to “Look inside” the Contents and a sample of pages
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BENTLEY, Jerry H., SUBRAHMANYAM, Sanjay, WIESNER-HANKS, Merry E. (eds.), The Cambridge World History. Volume 6, The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800CE (Part 1: Foundations)
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BENTLEY, Jerry H., SUBRAHMANYAM, Sanjay, WIESNER-HANKS, Merry E. (eds.), The Cambridge World History. Volume 6, The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800CE (Part 2: Patterns of Change)
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BOORSTIN, Daniel J., The Discoverers
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BROTTON, Jerry, A History of the World in Twelve Maps
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PARKER, Charles H., Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400-1800
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PARRY, J.H., The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration and Settlement, 1450-1650
