The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences
In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative essays written by experts in the field explores the full range of material culture in the long eighteenth century, raising crucial questions about notions of property and invention, homely and commercial lives. The book also includes a series of well-illustrated exhibits, a startling and provocative assemblage of objects from the Enlightenment world, each accompanied by expert comment…
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Weitere Autoren: Craciun, Adriana (Hrsg.) / Schaffer, Simon (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-137-44379-3
- EAN: 9781137443793
- Produktnummer: 20575476
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 322 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'495 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: 18 schwarz-weiße und 36 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Adriana Craciun is University of California Presidential Chair at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She has previously taught at the University of London and the University of Nottingham. She is the author of numerous works on British literature and culture, the history of exploration and Arctic studies.Simon Schaffer is Professor of History of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is coeditor of The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (1999) and of The Brokered World: Go-betweens and Global Intelligence 1770-1820 (2009).
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