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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 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 things, and the power of things. This edition includes a new preface and three new essays on 'encountering things' to enrich the volume. These look at cabinets of curiosities, American pearls, and the material culture of West Central Africa. Spanning across the early modern world from Ming dynasty China and Tokugawa Japan to Siberia and Georgian England, from the Kingdom of the Kongo and the Ottoman Empire to the Caribbean and the Spanish Americas, 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 and lavishly illustrated, this updated edition of Early Modern Things is essential reading for all those interested in the early modern world and the history of material culture.

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Title Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800
Author Paula Findlen (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Pages 460
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9781138483149 / 1138483141
Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
Category History - General History
Library of Congress subjects Civilization, Modern, Material culture - History
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020039945
Dewey Decimal Code 306.46

About the author

Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History and Director of the Suppes Center for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stanford University, USA. Her previous works include Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (1994), and, most recently Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World (2019), Leonardo's Library (2019), and The Renaissance of Letters (2020). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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