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Chargement... This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (2016)par Jerry Brotton
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. So interesting. Lots of names and places to keep track of. I was glad for the maps and the pictures. I found the part about Marlowe and Shakespeare really fascinating. ( ) The Sultan and the Queen The Sultan and the Queen Lessons and Key Takeaways: 1. Be diplomatic in your dealings with people when asking or receiving something. 2. Always have a parting offer to give them if required that is agreeable to both parties. 3. Maintain a relationship by being cordial and open to new ideas and expenses. 4. Do not let anyone run your life for you. Run your life like a business and treat yourself as if you are wealthy in knowledge and time. Knowledge is important. 5. Do not be afraid to get to know people from different cultures and backgrounds and religions from your own. That allows you to grow your finances, grow your mind, enrich your time, and become more educated. 6. Trade your time for knowledge and understanding through forming relationships that cause you to think differently from others and bolster your success. Biggest Takeaway: Do not form a relationship to tolerate someone. Form a relationship to grow, learn, and apply what you learn from them. Be genuine and do not do it for a show or survival. Do it because you find it worthwhile. Quote in Summary: “Relationships take time to build based on understanding, bartering, reading of time and resources and always being willing to accept someone for their differences that make them unique.” This was really interesting, if a bit dense—the author used a large number (and wide variety) of primary source material and wading through the 16th-century verbiage took a little time. But worth it, I think, for a very vivid and far-reaching picture of all the political vicissitudes of the time. LJ review on the way. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Long before the Barbary pirates challenged Thomas Jefferson, English merchants traveled to Marrakesh to trade gunpowder for sugar. Islam and the West crossed paths much earlier than we think--and originally the Muslims had the upper hand. When Queen Elizabeth was excommunicated by the pope in 1570, she found herself in an awkward predicament. England had always depended on trade. Now its key markets were closed to her Protestant merchants, while the staunchly Catholic king of Spain vowed to take her throne. In a bold decision, she set her sights on the East. She sent an emissary to the shah of Iran, wooed the king of Morocco, and entered into an unprecedented alliance with the powerful Ottoman sultan Murad III. This marked the beginning of an extraordinary alignment with Muslim powers and of economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. By the late 1580s, thousands of English merchants, diplomats, sailors, and privateers were plying their trade from Morocco to Persia. To finance these expeditions, they created the first-ever joint stock company, a revolutionary new business model that balanced risk and reward. Londoners were gripped with a passion for the Orient. Elizabeth became hooked on sugar as new words like "candy," "turquoise," and "tulip" entered the English language. Marlowe offered up Tamburlaine and Shakespeare wrote Othello six month after the first Moroccan ambassador's visit. In this groundbreaking book, Jerry Brotton reveals that Elizabethan England's relationship with the Muslim world was far more amicable--and far more extensive--than we have ever appreciated as he tells the riveting story of the traders and adventurers who first went East to seek their fortunes. -- Inside jacket flaps. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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