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 6. Unit 1. The Spanish arrival

Browse a website

• Andrés de Urdaneta (link provided by Ederne Frontela)

Analyse a source

• Blair & Robertson, The Philippine islands
  Gutenberg project

Week 6. Unit 2. The Manila Sangleys

Browse a website

• The Selden map of China
  Bodleian Library.

Listen to a podcast

• Jerry Brotton: Maps: Power, Plunder and Posssession (link provided by Lucy Costa)
  BBC 4

Read an article

• Bachelor, Robert The Selden Map Rediscovered: A Chinese Map of East Asian Shipping Routes, c.1619.
  Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography 65:1, 2013, pp. 37-63

• Hongping, Annie Nie, The Selden map of China. A new understanding of the Ming dynasty
  Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, 2004.
  This article has a link inside the Bodleian library web on the Selden map, click at “books”.

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Week 6. Unit 3. Martin de Rada’s books

Listen to a podcast

• Rennaissance astrology
  Melvyn Bragg discuss about Rennaissance astrology with Peter Forshaw, Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London; Lauren Kassell, Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge; and Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde.

• Rennaissance maths
  Melvyn Bragg discuss Rennaissance maths with Robert Kaplan, co-founder of the Maths Circle at Harvard University; Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of Science and Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford; Jackie Stedall, Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics, The Queen’s College, Oxford.

• Rennaissance magic
  Melvyn Bragg discuss Rennaissance magic with Peter Forshaw, Lecturer in Renaissance Philosophies at Birkbeck, University of London; Valery Rees, Renaissance historian and a translator of Ficino’s letters; Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde.

Week 6. Unit 4. Martín de Rada

Analyse a source

• Martín de Rada’s narrative
  La China en España: elaboración de un corpus digitalizado de documentos españoles sobre China de 1555 a 1900
  Research project directed by Dra. Folch

Week 6. Unit 5. Miguel de Loarca

Analyse a source

• Miguel de Loarca’s narrative La China en España: elaboración de un corpus digitalizado de documentos españoles sobre China de 1555 a 1900
  Research project directed by Dra. Folch

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

• GRUZINSKI, Serge, The Eagle and the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century

• PIGAFETTA, Antonio, Pigafetta, Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo

• PIGAFETTA, Antonio, Pigafetta. The first voyage around the world (1519-1522): An Account of Magellan’s Expedition

• RICHMOND, Robert E., They Need Nothing: Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period

• SACHDEV, Rachana, LI, Qingjun (eds.), Encountering China: Early Modern European Responses