Inventing Exoticism : : Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World / / Benjamin Schmidt.
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 ric...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Texts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 24 color, 179 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction On the Invention of Exoticism and the Invention of Europe
- Chapter one Printing the World: Processed Books and Exotic Stereotypes
- Chapter two Seeing the World: Visuality and Exoticism
- Chapter three Exotic Bodies: Sex and Violence Abroad
- Chapter four Exotic Pleasures: Geography, Material Arts, and the "Agreeable" World
- Epilogue From Promiscuous Assemblage to Order and Method: Europe and Its Exotic Worlds
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index