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Inventing exoticism : geography, globalism, and Europe's early modern world /
As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the subject of this highly original and ric...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2015.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Material texts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: On the invention of exoticism and the invention of Europe
- Printing the world: processed books and exotic stereotypes
- Seeing the world: visuality and exoticism
- Exotic bodies: sex and violence abroad
- Exotic pleasures: geography, material arts, and the "agreeable" world
- Epilogue: From promiscuous assemblage to order and method: Europe and its exotic worlds.