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"A totally absorbing book…imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception." —Jonathan D. Spence John E. Wills's masterful history ushers us into the worlds of 1688, from the suicidal exaltation of Russian Old Believers to the ravishing voice of the haiku poet Basho. Witness the splendor of the Chinese imperial court as the Kangxi emperor publicly mourns the death of his grandmother and shrewdly consolidates his power. Join the great caravans of Muslims on
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Wills, John Elliot
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393253641
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Political Science, History
- Rating
- 3.35 / 5 (117 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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