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050	0	0	_aD246 _b.W55 2001
082	0	0	_a909.6 WIL
100	1		_aWills, John E. _q(John Elliot) _d, 1936-
245	1	0	_a1688 _b: a global history _c/ John E. Wills
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Norton _c, c2001.
300			_axii, 330 p. _b: ill., map _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-314) and index.
520			_aWills 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.
650		0	_aHistory, Modern _y--17th century
942			_cMO
999			_c246446 _d246446