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Collecting across cultures : material exchanges in the early modern Atlantic world /

Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, Europe, and South America, each of the fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures explores a specific aspect of the history of collecting, collections, or collectors in the early modern period.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mancall, Peter C. (Editor ), Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Colección:Early modern Americas.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword / Baker, Malcolm
  • Introduction / Bleichmar, Daniela ; Mancall, Peter C.
  • Chapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections / Bleichmar, Daniela
  • Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol / Schmidt, Benjamin
  • Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism / Schnapp, Alain
  • Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display / Johnson, Carina L.
  • Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque / Marcaida, José Ramón ; Pimentel, Juan
  • Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England / Batchelor, Robert
  • Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750 / Fromont, Cécile
  • Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam / Benson, Sarah
  • Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784 / Burnard, Trevor
  • Chapter 10. ''Collecting Americans'': The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA / Mancall, Peter C.
  • Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century / Carro, Paz Cabello
  • Chapter 12. Martínez Compañón and His Illustrated ''Museum'' / Trever, Lisa ; Pillsbury, Joanne
  • Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century / Riviale, Pascal
  • Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums / O'Nei, Megan E.
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.