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03822aam a2200589 i 4500 001 579574963A6E11E5A08F40DADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150804010056 008 150204s2015 mau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014040716 020 $a 0674047192 020 $a 9780674047198 035 $a (OCoLC)893709457 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d HLS $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a D21.3 $b .E525 2015 082 00 $a 909.08 $2 23 245 00 $a Empires and encounters : $b 1350-1750 / $c edited by Wolfgang Reinhard. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a vii, 1152 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a A history of the world 520 2 $a "Empires and Encounters presents information on different aspects of human life in all parts of the world from the period 1350 to 1750. In the first centuries of that period people of different parts of the world were not only culturally different but also knew little or even nothing of each other. The Incas for instance had no idea of the existence of Europeans or Africans and vice versa. Inside large regions of the world, however, political interaction, as well as economic and cultural exchange, had been going on for many centuries and was during this period increasing in intensity because this was a time of worldwide empire-building. The chapters of the book examine Eurasia between Japan and Russia; the Ottoman and Iranian Empires of the Muslim world; Mughal India and the trading world of the Indian Ocean; the multicolored world of maritime Southeast Asia and Oceania; and the continents on both sides of the Atlantic under the growing impact of Europe. Europe at this time had no privileged power position, but it did enjoy a special role in establishing regular maritime interaction across the Atlantic and worldwide between the five macro-regions of the globe. The European world economy, based upon the silver of Spanish America, initiated modern globalization"--Provided by publisher. 500 $a Co-published in German as Weltreiche und Weltmeere : 1350-1750, by C.H. Beck Verlag, 2014. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Empires and frontiers in continental Eurasia / Peter C. Perdue -- The Ottoman Empire and the Islamic world / Suraiya Faroqhi -- South Asia and the Indian Ocean / Stephan Conermann -- Southeast Asia and Oceania / Reinhard Wendy and JuÌrgen G. Nagel -- Europe and the Atlantic world / Wolfgang Reinhard. 650 0 $a World history. 650 0 $a Middle Ages. 650 0 $a History, Modern $y 16th century. 650 0 $a History, Modern $y 17th century. 650 0 $a History, Modern $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History. 650 0 $a International relations $x History. 650 0 $a Regionalism $x History. 650 0 $a Acculturation $x History. 650 0 $a Commerce $x History. 650 7 $a Acculturation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00795535 650 7 $a Commerce. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00869279 650 7 $a History, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958367 650 7 $a Imperialism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00968126 650 7 $a International relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977053 650 7 $a Middle Ages. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01020301 650 7 $a Regionalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093204 650 7 $a World history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01181345 648 7 $a 1500 - 1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Reinhard, Wolfgang. 730 0 $a Weltreiche und Weltmeere. 830 0 $a History of the world (Belknap Press) 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210014957.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826113313.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=579574963A6E11E5A08F40DADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search