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- Title
- What Time is It There?
- Author
- Gruzinski, Serge
- Publisher
- Polity
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Near fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0745647537
- ISBN 13
- 9780745647531
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 290 grams
- Dimensions
- 14.02 centimeters width by 21.64 centimeters height by 1.78 centimeters depth
In this remarkable book, Serge Gruzinski takes us back to the early modern period and examines two testimonies that require us to navigate between America and the Islamic world long before the images of 9/11 had entered our heads. One is a chronicle of the New World compiled in Istanbul in 1580, the other is a Repertory of the Times written in Mexico in 1606, which dwells at length on the Empire of the Turks. Why and how did the Turks come to know so much about America, and what made readers in Mexico ask questions about the Ottomans?
Gruzinski conducts a dialogue between these two texts that emphasizes the singularities of the two visions, that of Islam and that of America, each already keeping a watchful eye on the other and yet irreducibly different, with this question always in the background: what did it mean to 'think the world' at the dawn of modern times?
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About the Author
Serge Gruzinski is Director of Studies at école des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
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