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London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689 Hardcover – Illustrated, January 6, 2014
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London’s success, Robert K. Batchelor argues, lies not just with the well-documented rise of Atlantic settlements, markets, and economies. Using his discovery of a network of Chinese merchant shipping routes on John Selden’s map of China as his jumping-off point, Batchelor reveals how London also flourished because of its many encounters, engagements, and exchanges with East Asian trading cities. Translation plays a key role in Batchelor’s study—translation not just of books, manuscripts, and maps, but also of meaning and knowledge across cultures—and Batchelor demonstrates how translation helped London understand and adapt to global economic conditions. Looking outward at London’s global negotiations, Batchelor traces the development of its knowledge networks back to a number of foreign sources and credits particular interactions with England’s eventual political and economic autonomy from church and King.
London offers a much-needed non-Eurocentric history of London, first by bringing to light and then by synthesizing the many external factors and pieces of evidence that contributed to its rise as a global city. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in the cultural politics of translation, the relationship between merchants and sovereigns, and the cultural and historical geography of Britain and Asia.
- Print length334 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication dateJanuary 6, 2014
- Dimensions9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
- ISBN-10022608065X
- ISBN-13978-0226080659
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"Batchelor builds a solid case for English success in translating the Asian world as an indispensable factor in London’s growth as a global entrepôt for goods and knowledge alike. The Selden map in particular emerges as a key repository of information on the deep structures of Asian geography and commerce as they existed in the first centuries of European seaborne contact. We are indebted to Batchelor for translating its profundities to us." ― Journal of British Studies
"Batchelor’s work is a well researched contribution to the field when it comes to contextualizing and tracking the changes in Europeans’ travel logs, literary works, and maps, such as Cabot’s and Selden’s map or Hakluyt’s and Ogilby’s publications on Asia. Additionally, through his analysis of these products of European knowledge on Asia, Batchelor’s work aims to push forward the field of world history by arguing that changes in Asia brought about a new, more global, London." ― Ming Studies
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- Publisher : University of Chicago Press; Illustrated edition (January 6, 2014)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 334 pages
- ISBN-10 : 022608065X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0226080659
- Item Weight : 1.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,131,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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