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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
List of Illustrations
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
7. Phaulkon
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
19. Aphra Behn
20. Newton, Locke, and Leibniz
Part VI. Islam and Its Others
21. The World of the Great Sultan
22. Mecca
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
Credits
Acknowledgments
Index
Praise for A Global History
Also By John E. Wills, Jr
About the Author
About the Book
Copyright
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