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Eighteenth-century thing theory in a global context : from consumerism to celebrity culture /

Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. In highlighting trends, fashions, and cultural imports of trul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baird, Ileana Popa (Editor ), Ionescu, Christina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Western European fads : porcelain, fetishes, museum objects, antiques
  • part II. Under Eastern eyes : garments, portraits, books
  • part III. Latin American encounters : coins, food, accessories, maps
  • part IV. Imagining other spaces : trinkets, collectibles, ethnographic artifacts, scientific objects.