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2 de mar. de 2021 · Now in its second edition, this book taps a rich vein of recent scholarship to explore a variety of approaches to the material culture of the early modern world (c. 1500–1800). Divided into seven parts, the book explores the ambiguity of things, representing things, making things, encountering things, empires of things, consuming ...
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Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came to define some of the key developments of the early modern world. Now in its second edition, this book taps a rich vein of recent scholarship to explore a variety of approaches to the ...
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1 de mar. de 2021 · Routledge, Mar 1, 2021 - History - 492 pages. Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and...
What can we learn about the past by studying things? How does the meaning of things, and our relationship to them, change over time? This fascinating collection taps a rich vein of recent scholarship to explore a variety of approaches to the material culture of the early modern world (c.1500-1800).
Early Modern Things: Setting Objects in Motion, 1500-1800. Paula Findlen. Part I: The Ambiguity of Things. 1.Surface Tension: Objectifying Ginseng in Chinese Early Modernity. Carla Nappi. 2. Going to the Birds: Animals as Things and Beings in Early Modernity. Marcy Norton. 3. The Restless Clock. Jessica Riskin. Part II: Representing Things.
Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500 –1800. New York: Routledge, 2013. xxiv 390 pp. $160. ISBN: 978-0-415-52050-8. Early Modern Things is a satisfying and helpful collection that explores the social and cultural lives of objects in the period 1500 –1800.
May 09, 2024. Bringing together an international group of literary scholars, intellectual historians, and cultural historians, this book discusses history in its various forms, either as texts or images in the early modern period (1500–1800). Early Modern Genres of History explores different genres and ... Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches.
