TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Mr. Selden's map of China : the spice trade, a lost chart and the South China Sea
A1  - Brook, Timothy, 1951- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - London
PB  - Profile Books
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2640634
AB  - Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old.In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford's Bodleian Library--where it had first been deposited 350 years before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a fake-- yet records confirmed it had been delivered to Oxford in 1659. The 'Selden Map,' as it is known, was a puzzle that needing solving. Brook, a historian of China, set out to explore the riddle. His investigation will lead readers around this elegant, enigmatic work of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the court of King James II. In the story of Selden's map, he reveals for us the surprising links between an English scholar and merchants half a world away, and offers novel insights into the power and meaning that a single map can hold. Brook delivers the same anecdote-rich narrative, intriguing characters, and unexpected historical connections that made Vermeer's Hat an instant classic.
NO  - First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Profile.
SN  - 978-1-78125-038-9 sidottu
KW  - Selden, John, : 1584-1654. : Private collections.
KW  - 1600-luku
KW  - 1600-talet
KW  - Cartography : South China Sea : History : Sources.
KW  - Geography, Ancient : Maps.
KW  - kartografia
KW  - historia
KW  - kauppa
KW  - kartat
KW  - kansainväliset suhteet
KW  - kartografi
KW  - handel
KW  - kartor
KW  - internationella relationer
KW  - South China Sea. : Maps, Manuscript. : Early works to 1800.
KW  - South China Sea. : Discovery and exploration. : Maps. : Early works to 1800.
KW  - Etelä-Kiinan meri
KW  - Kiina
KW  - Eurooppa
KW  - Kina
KW  - Europa
KW  - Sydkinesiska havet
ER  -