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
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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”.----- ----- ----- ----- -----
Week 6. Unit 3. Martin de Rada’s books
Listen to a podcast
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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
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GRUZINSKI, Serge, The Eagle and the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century
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PIGAFETTA, Antonio, Pigafetta, Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo
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PIGAFETTA, Antonio, Pigafetta. The first voyage around the world (1519-1522): An Account of Magellan’s Expedition
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RICHMOND, Robert E., They Need Nothing: Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period
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SACHDEV, Rachana, LI, Qingjun (eds.), Encountering China: Early Modern European Responses