Encompassing The Globe

Author : Jay A. Levenson
Publisher : Smithsonian Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encompassing the Globe written by Jay A. Levenson and published by Smithsonian Books. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to a major exhibition at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery assembles more than 250 full-colour reproductions of paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, maps, early books and many other extraordinary creations. the Portuguese voyages brought about a dramatic revolution; they were the first real interaction among cultures of the world and lead to the creation of strikingly beautiful and highly original works of art. this incredible collection of images features more than 250 full-color reproductions of paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, maps, early books, and many other extraordinary creations. Essays by leading authorities shed new light on the period, especially the motivations behind Portuguese expansion and the remarkable story of the search for Eastern spices. A dazzling look at the New World as it was being created.

Author : Jay A. Levenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934686075
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Author : Jay A. Levenson
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ISBN 13 : 9780934686075
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Publisher : Freer Gallery of Art
ISBN 13 : 9780934686044
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abstracts of Technical Studies in Art and Archeology, 1943-1952 written by and published by Freer Gallery of Art. This book was released on 1955 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Edwards
Publisher : Freer Gallery of Art
ISBN 13 : 9780934686075
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Jay A. Levenson
Publisher : Smithsonian Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encompassing the Globe written by Jay A. Levenson and published by Smithsonian Books. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to a major exhibition at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery assembles more than 250 full-colour reproductions of paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, maps, early books and many other extraordinary creations. the Portuguese voyages brought about a dramatic revolution; they were the first real interaction among cultures of the world and lead to the creation of strikingly beautiful and highly original works of art. this incredible collection of images features more than 250 full-color reproductions of paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, maps, early books, and many other extraordinary creations. Essays by leading authorities shed new light on the period, especially the motivations behind Portuguese expansion and the remarkable story of the search for Eastern spices. A dazzling look at the New World as it was being created.

Author : Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisboa)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789727763863
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encompassing the Globe written by Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisboa) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : RBJ Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135232288
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Globe, Before the World written by RBJ Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sustained critique of the primary traditions of both political theory and international relations theory, this book provides an analysis of the relationship between claims about sovereignty and the spatiotemporal articulation of boundaries, borders and limits.

Author : Avraham Ariel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313056463
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plotting the Globe written by Avraham Ariel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-12-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People use concepts such as time and date to structure their lives on a daily basis. They often measure their travel by marking points arranged along great circles on the globe. Yet most do not understand the origin and history of these terms and the stories of the intrepid adventurers, scientists, and seafarers who shaped our picture of the world today. Ariel transports readers to faraway lands and ancient cultures that span more than 3500 years of exploration. Phoenicians, Spaniards, Portuguese, British, French, and many others star in an epic that stretches from Lapland to Cape Horn, via Greenwich, Paris, the Andes and the Fortunate Islands. This book is a collection of stories and myths about geography, navigation, and geodesy— the science that deals with the Earth's figure and the interrelationship of selected points on its surface-that reaches far beyond dry scientific texts to concentrate on the people behind the discoveries. The knowledge and understanding of abstract notions such as the Prime Meridian, the Equator, and the International Date Line is conveyed through emphasis on the human spirit that motivated the pioneer scientists and sailors. It is a tale littered with heroes and villains, battles, tragedies and international intrigue. Readers will learn of a time when nothing was certain—even the shape and size of the earth were the subjects of fierce competition, conflict, and politics.

Author : Pamela H. Smith
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986701
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entangled Itineraries written by Pamela H. Smith and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade flowed across Eurasia, around the Indian Ocean, and over the Mediterranean for millennia, but in the early modern period, larger parts of the globe became connected through these established trade routes. Knowledge, embodied in various people, materials, texts, objects, and practices, also moved and came together along these routes in hubs of exchange where different social and cultural groups intersected and interacted. Entangled Itineraries traces this movement of knowledge across the Eurasian continent from the early years of the Common Era to the nineteenth century, following local goods, techniques, tools, and writings as they traveled and transformed into new material and intellectual objects and ways of knowing. Focusing on nonlinear trajectories of knowledge in motion, this volume follows itineraries that weaved in and out of busy, crowded cosmopolitan cities in China; in the trade hubs of Kucha and Malacca; and in centers of Arabic scholarship, such as Reyy and Baghdad, which resonated in Bursa, Assam, and even as far as southern France. Contributors explore the many ways in which materials, practices, and knowledge systems were transformed and codified as they converged, swelled, at times disappeared, and often reemerged anew.