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Gerry Broughton Gerry Broughton est un historien britannique. Il est professeur d'études de la Renaissance, animateur de télévision et de radio et conservateur à l'Université Queen Mary de Londres.
Broughton écrit sur la littérature, l'histoire, la culture matérielle, le commerce et les relations entre l'Orient et l'Occident, en particulier aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Il adopte une approche interdisciplinaire, considérant l'art, la politique, l'histoire, l'écriture de voyage et la littérature. Son livre A History of the World in Twelve Maps (Allen Lane, 2012) a été traduit en douze langues. ] Son livre Selling the Goods of the Late King: Charles I and His Art Collection (Macmillan, 2006) a été nominé pour le prix Samuel Johnson (maintenant le prix Bailey Gifford). Il suggère sarcastiquement que la dispersion de la collection d'art de Charles Ier en 1649 était un geste démocratique digne d'émulation dans le monde moderne. Son livre de 2016 This East Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (Londres: Alan Lane, 2016) a été publié sur BBC Radio 4 et a remporté la couronne de non-fiction de l'Association des écrivains historiques (2017).

Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World livre pdf lu et telecharge par Jerry Brotton

Trading Territories is a beautifully illustrated book that offers a new account of the status of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world. Focusing on how early European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World—Africa and Southeast Asia—Jerry Brotton contends that the historical preoccupation with Columbus’s “discovery” of the New World in 1492 has tended to obscure the importance of the mapping of territories that have been defined as “eastern.” Brotton situates the rise of early modern mapping within the context of the seaborne commercial adventures of the early maritime empires—the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Ottomans, the Dutch, and the English—and explores the ways in which maps and globes were used to mediate the commercial and diplomatic disputes between these empires. Rather than the development of early maps being shaped by disinterested intellectual pursuits, Trading Territories argues that trade, diplomacy, and financial speculation played the most essential role. “In this outstanding study of maps and mapping, Jerry Brotton reveals a dynamism in the transaction between East and West beyond anything we have previously appreciated.”—Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary, University of London