Books by Anne Gerritsen
“This is a great, scholarly book, an urban history, a history of porcelain, a history of the workforce, the migrant workforce that was brought into this city, to work in these huge kilns. These kilns produced whatever anybody wanted. They were very receptive to all the different design techniques. And there were huge markets in the Middle East and South east Asia.” Read more...
The best books on Global History
Maxine Berg, Historian
Interviews where books by Anne Gerritsen were recommended
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by Kenneth Pomeranz -
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Cotton: the Fabric that made the Modern World
by Giorgio Riello -
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The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World
by Anne Gerritsen -
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
by Timothy Brook -
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Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
by James Poskett
The best books on Global History, recommended by Maxine Berg
The best books on Global History, recommended by Maxine Berg
From the Indian cottons that were traded around Asia and Africa in the Middle Ages, to the global dominance of the blue-and-white pottery of Jingdezhen, historian Maxine Berg introduces five books that transformed our understanding of the past millennium and are significant milestones in the development of the vibrant field of global history.
