Wills, John E.  , 1936- <br/><br/>
1688  : a global history 
/ John E. Wills 
 - 1st ed 
 - New York  : Norton  , c2001. 
 - xii, 330 p.  : ill., map  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-314) and index. 
<br/><br/> Wills has merged cultural anthropology and history to reflect through the prism of a single year the shape of the world poised on the edge of modernity. This ambitious effort has a number of strengths such as the quality of its writing and its ability to weave together disparate narrative threads. But for many readers, this account's greatest strength will be what it is not Eurocentric, limited by gender and ethnicity, confined by class. It touches on events in Africa, the New World, China, Japan, Australia and eastern and western Europe. We go from the world of the Kangxi emperor in China to that of an African Muslim slave in the New World. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393047448 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00060077 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History, Modern----17th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D246  / .W55 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909.6 WIL