Robert K Batchelor: 2 books

Book cover of London

London

The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689

by Robert K. Batchelor
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014

If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost certainly would not have been London,...
Book cover of Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

by Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Tonio Andrade
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016

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...
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