Morfologia social e contextualização topográfica: a micro-história de Edoardo Grendi

Il saggio prende in considerazione il ruolo di Edoardo Grendi nella teorizzazione della proposta microstorica italiana, generalmente sconosciuto o sottostimato nel panorama accademico sudamericano

Introduction: Jack Wills and His Work and Influence

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores China\u27s peculiar relationship to the oceans, hypothesizing that official attitudes toward maritime commerce were shaped by China\u27s geography. It focuses on the opium trade in Qing and Republican China, and traces how domestic consumption patterns, internal politics, and foreign relations and policies interacted to create a drug infrastructure in China. The book offers a reappraisal of the short and bloody reign of Zhang Xianzhong, the King of the West in China\u27s Sichuan Province. It provides a perspective on how independent political actors could take advantage of fluid political situations, in this case the ongoing Ming loyalist movement. The book examines the further development of maritime China in the eighteenth century