1688: A Global History

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

January 3, 1688: A Baroque Prelude

PART I. A WORLD OF WOODEN SHIPS

1. The Empire of Silver

2. Many Africas

3. Slaves, Ships, and Frontiers

4. Dampier and the Aborigines

PART II. THE WORLD OF THE GREAT COMPANY

5. The Cape of Good Hope

6. The Island World

PART III. THREE WORLDS APART: RUSSIA, CHINA, JAPAN

8. Tsar Peter's Russia

9. Survivors and Visionaries

10. At the Court of Kangxi

11. The Jesuits and China

12. Kanazawa, Edo, Nagasaki

13. Saikaku and Bashô

PART IV. VERSAILLES, LONDON, AMSTERDAM

14. The Sun King and the Ladies

15. A Family Quarrel and a Glorious Revolution

16. Echoes across the Oceans

17. A Hundred Years of Freedom

PART V. WORLDS OF WORDS: STYLES AND THOUGHT IN EUROPE

18. In the Republic of Letters

20. Newton, Locke, and Leibniz

PART VI. ISLAM AND ITS OTHERS

21. The World of the Great Sultan

23. Hindus and Muslims

24. Englishmen, Indians, and Others

PART VII. EXILE, HOPE, AND FAMILY

25. Next Year in Jerusalem

26. O Well Is Thee

Sources and Further Reading