Author: Institut national genevoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1580
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Institut national genevoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1580
Book Description
Inventing Exoticism
Author: Benjamin SchmidtPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812290348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the subject of this highly original and richly textured study of cultural geography. Inventing Exoticism draws on a vast range of sources from history, literature, science, and art to describe the energetic and sustained international engagements that gave birth to our modern conceptions of exoticism and globalism. Illustrated with more than two hundred images of engravings, paintings, ceramics, and more, Inventing Exoticism shows, in vivid example and persuasive detail, how Europeans came to see and understand the world at an especially critical juncture of imperial imagination. At the turn to the eighteenth century, European markets were flooded by books and artifacts that described or otherwise evoked non-European realms: histories and ethnographies of overseas kingdoms, travel narratives and decorative maps, lavishly produced tomes illustrating foreign flora and fauna, and numerous decorative objects in the styles of distant cultures. Inventing Exoticism meticulously analyzes these, while further identifying the particular role of the Dutch—"Carryers of the World," as Defoe famously called them—in the business of exotica. The form of early modern exoticism that sold so well, as this book shows, originated not with expansion-minded imperialists of London and Paris, but in the canny ateliers of Holland. By scrutinizing these materials from the perspectives of both producers and consumers—and paying close attention to processes of cultural mediation—Inventing Exoticism interrogates traditional postcolonial theories of knowledge and power. It proposes a wholly revisionist understanding of geography in a pivotal age of expansion and offers a crucial historical perspective on our own global culture as it engages in a media-saturated world.
Isis
Author: George SartonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
"Brief table of contents of vols. I-XX" in v. 21, p. [502]-618.
Studies in Philology
Author: A catalogue of Several Valuable Libraries
Author: Benjamin WhiteThe Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author: Philosophia Musarum: Containing the Songs and Romances of the Pipers Wallet, Pan, the Harmonia Musarum and Other Miscellaneous Poems
Author: T. ForsterPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368878832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Report of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the Superintendent of the Library Buildings and Grounds
Author: Library of CongressReport of the Librarian of Congress and Report of the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: Library of CongressUniversal History and the Making of the Global
Author: Hall BjørnstadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429849850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
By examining the history of universal history from the late Middle Ages until the early nineteenth century we trace the making of the global. Early modern universal history can be seen as a response to the epistemological crisis provoked by new knowledge and experience. Traditional narratives were no longer sufficient to gain an understanding of events. Inspired by recent developments in theory of history, the volume argues that the relevance of universal history resides in the laboratory of intense, diverse and mainly unsuccessful attempts at thinking history and universals together. They all shared the common aim of integrating all time and space: assemble the world and keep it together.