Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800

Early Modern Things

Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800
 
Edition number: 2, New edition
Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN13:9781138483132
ISBN10:1138483133
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:492 pages
Size:234x156 mm
Weight:943 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 95 Illustrations, black & white; 84 Halftones, black & white; 11 Tables, black & white
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This book 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. It is essential reading for all those interested in the early modern world and the history of material culture.

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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.



"A cornucopia: a rich and valuable collection that ranges far and wide in its analysis of the dynamic and diverse powers ? symbolic, material, economic, political and religious ? of things in the early-modern world. These essays raise important questions about taking objects seriously for historians of any era."


John Brewer, California Institute of Technology, USA

Table of Contents:

Preface to the second edition:  early modern things revisited  Introduction: Early modern things: objects in motion, 1500?1800  Part I: The ambiguity of things  1.Surface Ttnsion:  objectifying ginseng in Chinese early modernity  2. Going to the birds:  animals as things and beings in early modernity  3. The restless clock  Part II: Representing things  4. Stil-Staende Dingen:  picturing objects in the Dutch Golden Age  5. 'Things seen and unseen': the material culture of early modern inventories and their representation of domestic interiors  6. Costume and character in the Ottoman Empire:  dress as social agent in Nicolay?s Navigations  Part III: Making things  7. Making things:  techniques and books in early modern Europe  8. Capricious demands: artisanal goods, business strategies, and consumer behavior in seventeenth-century Florence  Part IV: Encountering things  9. Catalogical encounters:  worldmaking in early modern cabinets of curiosities  10. Unruly objects:  baroque fantasies and early modern realities  11. The taste of others:  finery, the slave trade, and Africa?s place in the traffic in early modern things  Part V: Empires of things  12. Locating rhubarb:  early modernity's relevant obscurity  13. The world in a shilling:  silver coins and the challenge of political economy in the early modern Atlantic world  14. Anatolian timber and Egyptian grain:  things that made the Ottoman Empire  Part VI: Consuming things  15. The Tokugawa storehouse:  Ieyasu?s encounters with things  16. Porcelain for the poor:  the material culture of tea and coffee consumption in eighteenth-century Amsterdam  17. Fashioning difference in Georgian England:  furniture for him and for her  Epilogue: the power of things  18. Denaturalizing things: a comment  19. Something new: a comment  20. Identities through things: a comment