What Time is It There?

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4752-4

Hardcover

200 pages

January 2011, Polity

Other Available Formats: Paperback

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A unique historical contribution to the origins of what we now think of as ‘globalization’.
Gruzinski shows us that the opening up of cultures to other worlds is not new and occurred at the dawn of the modern age.
The author takes us back to the late 16th and early 17th centuries and, by juxtaposing texts from Istanbul and Mexico, shows that people in the Ottoman empire and in the Americas were keeping a watchful eye on one another. Through a careful analysis of these texts he sheds fresh light on what it meant to ‘think the world’ at the end of the Renaissance.
This book is written in a very lively and accessible way and makes use of contemporary films like Tsai Ming-liang’s ‘What time is there?’
Gruzinski is one of the leading historians of the early modern period.