Making worlds : global invention in the early modern period
Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Toronto : University of Toronto Press,
2022
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | The UCLA Clark Memorial Library series
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| Schlagworte: | Civilization, Modern Globalization Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (557 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world. 1 Introduction -- Part I: Material Flows -- 2 The Early Modern Fold: Pleated Media in Japan's Encounter with Europe -- 3 From Textile to Text: Cloth, Slavery, and the Archive in the Dutch Atlantic -- 4 Drawing Worlds: Bodies and Smoke in the Courtly Ballet Il Tabacco (1650) -- 5 From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art and Ambivalence in Early Modern Japan 110 -- 6 Eggs, Cheese, and (Francis) Bacon -- Part II: In-Between Spaces -- 7 The Production of Imprecision: Reframing Non-European Objects in Early Modern European Collections -- 8 Le Jeu du monde : Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern France -- 9 The World Contained in an Imperial Ottoman Album -- 10 World Building, the Folger Folios, and the University of British Columbia -- Part III: Other Worlds -- 11 Ascetic Ecology: Landscape of a Desert Saint -- 12 The End of All: Worldliness, Piety, and the Social Life of Maps in the Post-Reformation English Household -- 13 Enlightenment Cosmology: A Medialogical Interpretation -- 14 Masked Alliances: Global Politics and Economy in the Art and Performance Rituals of Mexico's Indigenous People -- 15 Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch Republic -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Series Page. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (557 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781487544966 1487544960 |