Saint Confucius, the Chinese Adam, and a Broken Mirror: Writing World History in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 471-497
Author(s):  
Thijs Weststeijn
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
World History ◽  
Mirror Writing

The blessings and perils of female rule: New perspectives on the reigning queens of Patani, c. 1584–1718

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Amirell
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
World History ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
Female Rule ◽  
Political Economic

Only in a handful of cases in world history has female rule been seen by contemporary observers as desirable and been sustained for long periods of time. Drawing on European, Malay and Chinese sources, this article investigates the reasons for the institutionalisation of female rule in the Malay sultanate of Patani (presently in southern Thailand) for most of the period between c. 1584 and 1711. It is concluded that the results of previous research, in which the Patani queens are characterised as powerless front figures and/or promiscuous, have insufficient support in the contemporary sources. Furthermore, the problems of female rule for dynastic stability are discussed comparatively. Finally, the decline of female rule in Patani after the mid-seventeenth century is explained with reference to the larger political, economic and military changes in maritime Southeast Asia at the time.

The Role of Islam in World History

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall G. S. Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
World History ◽  
Central Location ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Cultural Pressures

Until the seventeenth century of our era, the Islamicate society that was associated with the Islamic religion was the most expansive society in the Afro-Eurasian hemisphere and had the most influence on other societies. This was in part because of its central location, but also because in it were expressed effectively certain cultural pressures–cosmopolitan and egalitarian (and anti-traditional)– generated in the older and more central lands of this society.

A Defence of World History (The Prothero Lecture)

1982 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
William H. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
World History ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

World history was once taken for granted as the only sensible basis for understanding the past. Christians could do no other than begin with creation and fit subsequent details into the framework of divine revelation. This ordering of the past survived into the seventeenth century as Bossuet and Walter Raleigh may remind us. But with the revival of antique letters, a different model for historical writing asserted itself that could not fit smoothly within the Christian epos. In effect, Thucydides and Tacitus challenged Augustine, presenting the history of states and their interaction as a self-contained whole. Guicciardini and Machiavelli wrote their histories accordingly, dismissing as irrelevant the world historical framework that had seemed essential to earlier believers.

The Role of Indian Textiles in Southeast Asian Trade in the Seventeenth Century

1962 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Sen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World History ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Asian History

The role of Indian textiles in Southeast Asian trade in the seventeenth century was important in three ways. First, there was a great, almost unlimited, demand for these goods in all the Southeast Asian markets; second, they constituted the principal medium of exchange for the trade of Southeast Asia with the outside world; and third, they shaped the pattern of Inter-Asian trade of the European Companies, which laid the foundation of their wealth and commerce and later political power in the eighteenth century. The first two were important for Southeast Asian history only, but the last was of very great importance from the point of view of world history, not less important, in its far-reaching effects, than the voyages of discovery at the beginning of the modern period or the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution in the eighteenth century. The poor Indian weavers shaped the course of world history by unconsciously laying the foundation of British and Dutch colonial empires.

The Quaker Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern British Peace Movement, 1895–1920

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Military Service ◽  
World History ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
Society Of Friends ◽  
War Resisters ◽  
Religious Body ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Modern Era

Few in Britain were suprised by Quaker opposition to the Great War; the Society of Friends had traditionally condemned war and violence. Many, however, were startled by the nature and intensity of Quaker resistance, which far exceeded anything they had previously attempted. One possible explanation for the militancy of the Society's anti-war stand certainly would be the prospect of enforced military service, a contingency that had not seriously confronted Friends since the seventeenth century. However, this article will argue that the attitudes and actions of Quaker war-resisters were most significantly influenced by a revitalization of the peace testimony that had remained dormant for nearly a century. In her study of Victorian Quakers, Elizabeth Isichei has already noted that the “patterns of world history have made pacifism, which was a peripheral importance in the nineteenth century, one of Quakerism's … central beliefs, and, for some, its most essential element.” The aim here is to show how this development not only transformed British Quakerism, but also gave the Society of Friends—a religious body of less than 20,000 members—a crucial role in shaping the first significant peace movement of the modern era.

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