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Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Daniela Bleichmar
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Description for Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Paperback. Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, Europe, and South America, each of the fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures explores a specific aspect of the history of collecting, collections, or collectors in the early modern period. Editor(s): Bleichmar, Daniela; Mancall, Peter C. Series: The Early Modern Americas. Num Pages: 392 pages, 12 color, 65 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 256 x 181 x 22. Weight in Grams: 958.
In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who did not travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that arrived from faraway places. Objects traveled various routes-personal, imperial, missionary, or trade-and moved not only across space but also across cultures. Histories of the early modern global culture of collecting have focused for the most part on European Wunderkammern, or cabinets of curiosities. But the ... Read more
In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who did not travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that arrived from faraway places. Objects traveled various routes-personal, imperial, missionary, or trade-and moved not only across space but also across cultures. Histories of the early modern global culture of collecting have focused for the most part on European Wunderkammern, or cabinets of curiosities. But the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
The Early Modern Americas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812222203
SKU
V9780812222203
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About Daniela Bleichmar
Daniela Bleichmar is Associate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Southern California. Peter C. Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
Reviews for Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World
The essays in Collecting Across Cultures offer a fascinating new perspective on Europe's encounters with an ethnically and culturally diverse early modern world. . . . Collections and the objects within them are thus themselves imaginatively reconceptualized as sites of encounter and exchange. -British Journal for the History of Science