Collecting Across Cultures : : Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World /

Collecting Across Cultures : : Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World / / ed. by Peter C. Mancall, Daniela Bleichmar.

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 f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Malcolm,
Batchelor, Robert,
Benson, Sarah,
Bleichmar, Daniela,
Burnard, Trevor,
Carro, Paz Cabello,
Fromont, Cécile,
Johnson, Carina L.,
Mancall, Peter C.,
Marcaida, José Ramón,
O'Nei, Megan E.,
Pillsbury, Joanne,
Pimentel, Juan,
Riviale, Pascal,
Schmidt, Benjamin,
Schnapp, Alain,
Trever, Lisa,
HerausgeberIn:
Bleichmar, Daniela,
Mancall, Peter C.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The Early Modern Americas
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 12 color, 65 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • PART I. COLLECTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
  • Chapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections
  • Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol
  • Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism
  • PART II. COLLECTING AND THE FORMATION OF GLOBAL NETWORKS
  • Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display
  • Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque
  • Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England
  • Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750
  • Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam
  • PART III. COLLECTING PEOPLE
  • Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784
  • Chapter 10. ''Collecting Americans'': The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA
  • PART IV. EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS OF AMERICANA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
  • Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century
  • Chapter 12. Martínez Compañón and His Illustrated ''Museum''
  • Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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