Book ID: CBB335566887

Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds (2023)

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The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitcher plant to a shell-like skinned armadillo - and the humans enthralled with them. Episodes from 1500 to the early 1900s reveal connected histories across early modern worlds as natural things traveled across the Indian Ocean, the Ottoman Empire, Pacific islands, Southeast Asia, the Spanish Empire, and Western Europe. In distant worlds that were constantly changing with expanding networks of trade, colonial aspirations, and the rise of empiricism, natural things obtained new meanings and became alienated from their origins. Tracing the processes of their displacement, each chapter starts with a piece of original artwork that relies on digital collage to pull image sources out of place and to represent meanings that natural things lost and remade.

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Authors & Contributors
Douglas, Bronwen
Göttler, Christine
Rublack, Ulinka
Burkart, Lucas
Susanna Burghartz
Alpers, Edward A.
Journals
Journal of Early Modern History
Environment and History
Environmental History
Journal of Pacific History
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Revue des études sud-est européennes
Publishers
Amsterdam University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Cambridge University Press
Böhlau Verlag
Brill
Edinburgh University Press
Concepts
Material culture
Things; objects in the world
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Historiography
Global history
Cross-cultural comparison
People
Hoefnagel, Joris
Lazarus Secretarius
Marsigli, Luigi Ferdinando
Mehmed Said Efendi
Bion, Nicolas
Time Periods
Early modern
16th century
Renaissance
17th century
19th century
Modern
Places
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Southeast Asia
Islands of the Pacific
New Zealand
Africa
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