Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 - Two tranquil worlds
Chapter 2 - Openness to the world
Chapter 3 - Because the world is round
Chapter 4 - A leap into the unknown?
Chapter 5 - Books and letters from the other end of the world
Chapter 6 - Embassy or conquest?
Chapter 7 - The clash of civilizations
Chapter 8 - Naming the other
Chapter 9 - A story of cannon
Chapter 10 - Opacity or transparency?
Chapter 11 - The greatest cities in the world
Chapter 12 - The Hour of the crime
Chapter 13 - The Place of the Whites
Chapter 14 - To everyone their own post-war
Chapter 15 - The secrets of the South Sea
Chapter 16 - China on the horizon
Chapter 17 - When China awakes
Conclusion - Towards a global history of the Renaissance
Notes
Bibliography

About the Author

Serge Gruzinski is Director of Research at the CentreNational de la Recherche Scientifique and Director of Studies atthe Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales inParis.

Reviews

Serge Gruzinski has made a brilliant contribution to the new genreof connected history in this study, which contraststhe successful conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards with the failureof Portuguese attempts to colonize China. Peter Burke