1616: The World in Motion
- ISBN-10
- 1619020467
- ISBN-13
- 9781619020467
- Category
- History / Expeditions & Discoveries
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-01
- Publisher
- Catapult
- Author
- Thomas Christensen
Description
The world of 1616 was a world of motion. Enormous galleons carrying silk and silver across the Pacific created the first true global economy, and the first international megacorporations were emerging as economic powers. In Europe, the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes marked the end of an era in literature, as the spirit of the Renaissance was giving way to new attitudes that would lead to the age of revolutions. Great changes were also taking place in East Asia, where the last native Chinese dynasty was entering its final years and Japan was beginning its long period of warrior rule. Artists there, as in many parts of the world, were rethinking their connections to ancient traditions and experimenting with new directions. Women everywhere were redefining their roles in family and society. Slave trading was relocating large numbers of people, while others were migrating in search of new opportunities. The first tourists, traveling not for trade or exploration but for personal fulfillment, were exploring this new globalized world. Thomas Christensen illuminates this extravagant age by focusing on a single riotous year. Woven with color images and artwork from the period, 1616 tells the surprising tales of the men and women who set the world on its tumultuous course toward modernity.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616
By R. W. DentProverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616
-
The Memoir of 1603 and the Diary of 1616-1619
By Anne CliffordThis Broadview edition includes an illuminating introduction that places these texts in their historical and literary context.
-
SIR THOMAS OVERBURIES VISION 1
By Richard 1584-1616 NiccolsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
-
Ben Jonson's 1616 Folio
By Jennifer Brady, Wyman H. HerendeenContingency , marginality , interdependence : Jonsonians will recognize these important ideas for Jonson's art and his view of life . They have been central in recent discussions of the epigrams , where clusters of poems and organizing ...
-
The Death of Shakespeare: As It Was Accomplisht in 1616 and the Causes Thereof
By Jon Benson, Douglas HollmannThe Death of Shakespeare explains how this happened, and why the Bard of Avon paid with his life for his part in, to use the words of Henry James, "the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world."
-
JULIUS CAESAR
By William 1564-1616 Shakespeare, Mabel Tuttle Ed FrushThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
-
WIT & WISDOM OF DON QUIXOTE
By Miguel De 1547-1616 Cervantes SaavedraThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
-
STORIES FROM DON QUIXOTE
By Miguel De 1547-1616 Cervantes Saavedra, H. L.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
-
LIFE & EXPLOITS OF THE INGENIO
By Miguel De 1547-1616 Cervantes Saavedra, Anker 1759-1819 Smith, Charles 1675?-1739 JarvisThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
-
WILLIAM SHAKSPERE A BIOG
By William 1564-1616 Shakespeare, Charles 1791-1873 KnightThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.