Tonio Andrade | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tonio Adam Andrade 1968 (age 57–58) |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Parker and Jonathan D. Spence |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | |
| Website | tonioandrade.com  |
Tonio Adam Andrade (born 1968) is an American military historian and sinologist. A historian of East Asia and the history of East Asian trading networks,[1] he is a professor of history at Emory University.
Biography
[edit]Tonio Andrade is the son of material scientist J. D. Andrade[2][3] and grew up in Salt Lake City. He earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology at Reed College, and went on to study history at Yale University[4] where he had Jonathan Spence as a dissertation advisor. He became interested in the history of China as an undergraduate student and began studying the language at that time.[5]
In 2012 Andrade received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the military history of the Yuan and Ming dynasties and the development of gunpowder weaponry.[4]
Bibliography
[edit]- Commerce, Culture, and Conflict: Taiwan Under European Rule, 1624–1662. Yale University Press, 2000.
- How Taiwan became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han colonization in the seventeenth century. Columbia University Press, 2008.
- The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History: Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker. Ashgate Publishing, 2013.
- Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West. Princeton University Press, 2013.[6][7]
- The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History. Princeton University Press, 2016.[8][9]
- Early Modern East Asia: War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange. Routledge, 2018.
- Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700. University of Hawaii Press, 2019.
- The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China. Princeton University Press, 2021.
See also
[edit]- Global silver trade from the 16th to 19th centuries
- Victor Lieberman
- Maritime Silk Road
- Nanban trade
- Taiwan under Qing rule
References
[edit]- ^ "Emory University".
- ^ "Tonio Andrade on The Last Embassy | Princeton University Press". press.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
- ^ Andrade, Joe (2019-01-16). "Joe Who? Archives". Retrieved 2026-01-09.
- ^ a b "Tonio Andrade, Guggenheim Fellowships". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
- ^ Ross, John Grant (22 June 2018). "Author Interview: Tonio Andrade". Bookish Asia. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
- ^ "The American Historical Review".
- ^ "Publishers Weekly- Review".
- ^ "Review: The Gunpowder Age". www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ "South China Morning Post- Review". www.scmp.com. 7 January 2016.