Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800 Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800

Name: Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800 Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800
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ISBN: 9780415520515

ISBN-10: 0415520517

ISBN-13: 9780415520515

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paula Findlen

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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.1450-1750). From Ming dynasty China to Georgian England, and from Ottoman Egypt to Spanish America, the authors provide a generous set of examples in how to study the circulation, use, consumption and, most fundamentally, the nature of things themselves. Drawing on a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, Early Modern Thingssupplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of figures


List of tables


Contributors


Acknowledgments


Illustration sources and permissions


Introduction


Early modern things: objects in motion, 1500-1800




The ambiguity of things



Surface tension: objectifying ginseng in Chinese early modernity




Going to the birds: animals as things and beings in early modernity




The restless clock




Representing things



Stil-staende dingen: picturing objects in the Dutch Golden Age




'Things seen and unseen': The material culture of early modern inventories and their representation of domestic interiors




Costume and character in the Ottoman Empire: dress as social agent in Nicolay's Navigations




Making things



Making things: techniques and books in early modern Europe




Capricious demands: artisanal goods, business strategies, and consumer behavior in seventeenth-century Florence




Empires of things



Locating rhubarb: early modernity's relevant obscurity




The world in a shilling: silver coins and the challenge of political economy in the early modern Atlantic world




Anatolian timber and Egyptian grain: things that made the Ottoman Empire




Consuming things



The Tokugawa storehouse: Ieyasu's encounters with things




Porcelain for the poor: the material culture of tea and coffee consumption in eighteenth-century Amsterdam




Fashioning difference in Georgian England: furniture for him and for her




Epilogue: the power of things



Denaturalizing things: a comment




Something new: a comment




Identities through things: a comment



Index