The eagle and the dragon : globalization and European dreams of conquest in China and America in the sixteenth century / Serge Gruzinski ; translated by Jean Birrell.
Introduction -- Two tranquil worlds -- Openness to the world -- Because the world is round -- A leap into the unknown? -- Books and letters from the other end of the world -- Embassy or conquest? -- The clash of civilizations -- Naming the other -- A story of cannon -- Opacity or transparency? -- The greatest cities in the world -- The hour of the crime -- The place of the whites -- To everyone their own post-war -- The secrets of the south sea -- China on the horizon -- When china awakes -- Conclusion -- towards a global history of the renaissance.
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