Books by Timothy Brook
Great State: China and the World
by Timothy Brook
Timothy Brook explores China's relationships with the rest of the world over the past eight centuries.
“He chose the perspective of writing about some of Vermeer’s paintings, and taking a microscopic look at those paintings and the objects depicted in them. He then followed out from those objects to tell a story of the 16th and 17th centuries, especially 17th Century global history. Each chapter starts with a different object. There’s a beaver hat, there’s smoking, there’s the porcelain, there’s the Turkish carpets. It’s a book written for a wide audience.” Read more...
The best books on Global History
Maxine Berg, Historian
Interviews where books by Timothy Brook were recommended
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
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Cotton: the Fabric that made the Modern World
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The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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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.
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The Return of Martin Guerre
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The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
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Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700
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The History of Myddle
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
by Timothy Brook
The best books on Microhistory, recommended by Jonathan Healey
The best books on Microhistory, recommended by Jonathan Healey
The historian defines and discusses micro-history, choosing five books that use historical minutiae to answer big questions about the past.
