Timothy Brook
Autore di Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Sull'Autore
Timothy Brook is principal of St. John's College at the University of British Columbia, and holds the Shaw Chair in Chinese Studies at Oxford University.
Opere di Timothy Brook
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China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (2009) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 124 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Brook, Timothy James
- Data di nascita
- 1951-01-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada - Istruzione
- University of Toronto (BA|1973)
Harvard University (MA|Regional Studies-East Asia|1977)
Harvard University (PhD|History and East Asian Languages|1984) - Attività lavorative
- university professor
historian - Organizzazioni
- University of British Columbia
- Breve biografia
- A native of Toronto, Timothy Brook has taught Chinese history at the University of British Columbia since 2004. He was appointed Shaw Professor of Chinese at Oxford in 2007, but returned to UBC in 2009, where he holds the Republic of China Chair in UBC’s Institute of Asian Research. An honorary professor of East China Normal University in Shanghai, he holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick.
Primarily a historian of the 16th and 17th centuries, Brook also works on Japan’s wartime occupation of China and human rights in contemporary China. He has written eight books and edited nine, in addition to serving as editor-in-chief of the six-volume History of Imperial China from Harvard University Press.
Brook lives on Salt Spring Island with his wife, Fay Sims.
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Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn… di Timothy Brook
Historian Brook uses the Delft of Johannes Vermeer as the reference point for examining the expansion of globalization in the seventeenth century. Brook identifies objects or persons in 17th century Dutch artworks that link Delft with the wider world. Since Brook specializes in Chinese history, it’s not surprising that most of the paths he follows lead to China. While the term “globalization” may have entered common usage only in the late 20th century, it’s clear that its effects have been visible since at least the seventeenth century.… (altro)
Brook guides us through studies of numerous, mostly Vermeer, paintings and objets d'art; and from each one chooses what he calls a 'door' to help us understand the rapidly globalizing world of the seventeenth century. A clever, imaginative, and thought-provoking book.
seniális témaválasztás! Rendkívül ollvasmányos formában kelti fel a figyelmet a világkereskedelem, globalizáció, földrajzi felfedezések, népek-nemzetek keveredése és egymásra hatása irtánt. Igazi élmény az olvasása, nagyon jó a nézőpont és hihetetlen távolságokat fog át térben, ill. emberi sorsok és nemzettörténetek alakulása kapcsán.
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