Global History and New Polycentric Approaches : : Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History Series
• Author: Perez Garcia, Manuel.
• TeilnehmendeR: De Sousa, Lucio.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,, 2017.; Ã2018.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction: Current Challenges of Global History in East Asian Historiographies
• References
• Part I Escaping from National Narratives: The New Global History in China and Japan
• Global History, the Role of Scientific Discovery and the 'Needham Question': Europe and China in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Joseph Needham and His Science and Civilisation in China
• 3 The Development of Science and 'the Needham Question'
• 3.1 Material Factors: Physical Environment and Economics
• 3.2 Non-Material Factors: Philosophy and Culture
• 4 Is the Needham Question Worth Asking?
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• RETRACTED CHAPTER: Encounter and Coexistence: Portugal and Ming China 1511-1610: Rethinking the Dynamics of a Century of Global-Local Relations
• Challenging National Narratives: On the Origins of Sweet Potato in China as Global Commodity During the Early Modern Period
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Towards a New National Narrative: The Evolution on Studies of Sweet Potato in Chinese Historiography
• 3 The Origin of Sweet Potato in China
• 3.1 Introduction: The Timing and Route of Sweet Potato
• 3.2 The Distribution of Sweet Potato
• 4 The Influence of Sweet Potato on Agricultural Production and the Social Economy
• 5 Conclusions
• References
• Economic Depression and the Silver Question in Nineteenth-Century China
• 1 Measuring Economic Performance: GDP and Real Wages
• 2 Population, Prices and Money Supply
• 3 The Silver Question
• 4 Conclusion
• References
• Kaiiki-Shi and World/Global History: A Japanese Perspective
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Earlier Works
• 3 The Emergence of Kaiiki-Shi
• 4 Kaiiki-Shi in KAKENHI Projects and the Terminology of 'Kaiiki'.
• 5 The Booming of Kaiiki-Shi
• 6 Potentials and Limits: The Dilemma of Kaiiki-Shi
• 7 Conclusion
• Part II Trade Networks and Maritime Expansion in East Asian Studies
• The Structure and Transformation of the Ming Tribute Trade System
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Temporal Transformation of the Ming Tributary Trade System
• 3 The First Period: 1368-1402
• 4 The Second Period: 1403-1435
• 5 The Third Period: 1436-1464
• 6 The Fourth Period: 1465-1509
• 7 The Fifth Period: 1510-1539
• 8 The Sixth Period: 1540-1566
• 9 The Formation and Structure of the '1570 System'
• 10 Conclusion
• References
• The Nanban and Shuinsen Trade in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Japan
• 1 Background to the Nanban Trade
• 2 The Dispersion of Portuguese Merchants
• 3 The Nanban (Southeast Asian) Trade in the Age of Civil Wars
• 4 Merchants at the Time of the Opening of Nagasaki Port
• 5 The Life of a Christian Merchant
• 6 Japanese Religious Culture and the Jesuit's Response
• 7 Early Nagasaki Headmen and Trade
• 8 The Jesuits and Nanban Trade
• 9 The Mutual Complementarity of the Portuguese Ships and Shuinsen
• 10 Portuguese Merchants Living in Nagasaki
• 11 Christians and Southeast Asia
• 12 Conclusion
• References
• The Jewish Presence in China and Japan in the Early Modern Period: A Social Representation
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Sephardic Presence in Macau
• 2.1 The First Community of Sephardic Origin in Macau
• 2.2 The General Pardon of 1605 and the Revolts of the Judeo-Conversos in Macau in 1611
• 3 The Sephardic Presence in Japan
• 3.1 Judeo-Conversos and the Society of Jesus in China and Japan
• 3.2 The Community of Sephardic Origin in Nagasaki
• 4 Cognitive Perceptions of Judeo-Conversos in China and Japan in the Early Modern Period: The Perez Family Case
• 5 Conclusion.
• References
• Quantifying Ocean Currents as Story Models: Global Oceanic Currents and Their Introduction to Global Navigation
• 1 The Charts of the Currents, or What This Work Is Designed to Illustrate as Follows
• 2 Embarking from Qualitative to Quantitative Sciences
• 3 Practices of Data Collection and Knowledge Production
• 4 Changes in Scientific Values and the Perception of Nature
• 5 Models Are Stories: Shifts in Narratives
• 6 Enlarged Descriptions and Details of Several Conclusions
• References
• Part III Circulation of Technology and Commodities in the Atlantic and Pacific
• Global History and the History of Consumption: Congruence and Divergence
• 1 The Early Modern Consumer Revolution
• 2 The objects of Consumption
• 3 Conclusion
• References
• Mexican Cochineal, Local Technologies and the Rise of Global Trade from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
• 1 The Oaxaca Indian Communities, Rural Technology and the Secular Production of Cochineal
• 2 American Dyes and Their Role in Textile Protoglobalization
• 3 Conclusions
• References
• Social Networks and the Circulation of Technology and Knowledge in the Global Spanish Empire
• 1 Iberia and the Empire: Channels of Knowledge
• 2 Agents and Networks
• 3 Empire, Control of Knowledge and Globalization
• References
• Global Commodities in Early Modern Spain
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Source, Commodities and Consumers
• 3 Colonial Household Purchases in Madrid: From America to Asia
• 4 Content and Containers
• 5 Concluding Remarks: Global Products
• References
• Big History as a Commodity at Chinese Universities: A Study in Circulation
• 1 Consuming Commodification
• 2 Student Response
• 3 From Global to Big
• 4 Conclusion: Tying the Threads Together
• References.
• Correction to: Introduction: Current Challenges of Global History in East Asian Historiographies
• Correction to: Chapter 1 in: M. Perez Garcia and L. de Sousa (eds.), Global History and New Polycentric Approaches, Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History, &lt
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• Index.