In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850), an epoch marked by climatic catastrophes across the globe. Using the frame of geoaesthetics, he compares early modern conceptions of the environment and current assumptions about nature and culture.
A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of eco–art history, the book examines architecture, paintings, photography, and prints created in Braj alongside theological treatises and devotional poetry to foreground seepages between the natural ecosystem and cultural production. The paintings of deified rivers, temples that emulate fragrant groves, and talismanic bleeding rocks that Ray discusses will captivate readers interested in environmental humanities and South Asian art history.
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Автор: Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang Название: Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700 ISBN: 0824881494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824881498 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 26750.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese smugglers and pirates forged autonomous networks and maritime polities; they competed and cooperated with one another and with powerful political and economic units, such as the Manchu Qing, Tokugawa Japan, the Portuguese and Spanish crowns, and the Dutch East India Company.Maritime East Asia was a contested and contradictory place, subject to multiple legal, political, and religious jurisdictions, and a dizzying diversity of cultures and ethnicities, with dozens of major languages and countless dialects. Informal networks based on kinship ties or patron-client relations coexisted uneasily with formal governmental structures and bureaucratized merchant organizations. Subsistence-based trade and plunder by destitute fishermen complemented the grand dreams of sea-lords, profit-maximizing entrepreneurs, and imperial contenders. Despite their shifting identities, East Asia’s mariners sought to anchor their activities to stable legitimacies and diplomatic traditions found outside the system, but outsiders, even those armed with the latest military technology, could never fully impose their values or plans on these often mercurial agents.With its multilateral perspective of a world in flux, this volume offers fresh, wide-ranging narratives of the “rise of the West” or “the Great Divergence.” European mariners, who have often been considered catalysts of globalization, were certainly not the most important actors in East and Southeast Asia. China’s maritime traders carried more in volume and value than any other nation, and the China Seas were key to forging the connections of early globalization—as significant as the Atlantic World and the Indian Ocean basin. Today, as a resurgent China begins to assert its status as a maritime power, it is important to understand the deep history of maritime East Asia.
Автор: Tamara H. Bentley Название: Picturing Commerce in and from the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800 ISBN: 9462984670 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789462984677 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 180230.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illustrates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800.
Автор: Hang, Xing Название: Conflict and commerce in maritime east asia ISBN: 110755845X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107558458 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A fresh perspective on the Zheng family of merchants and militarists. Under four generations of leaders over six decades, the Zheng came to dominate trade across the China Seas and eventually forged an autonomous territorial state based on Taiwan, while struggling to define their activities according to Confucian orthodoxy.
Автор: Hang Название: Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia ISBN: 1107121841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107121843 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A fresh perspective on the Zheng family of merchants and militarists. Under four generations of leaders over six decades, the Zheng came to dominate trade across the China Seas and eventually forged an autonomous territorial state based on Taiwan, while struggling to define their activities according to Confucian orthodoxy.
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