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Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World (The Early Modern Americas)
by Daniela Bleichmar, Peter C. Mancall (Author),
University of Pennsylvania Press (Publisher)
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Book Description
In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in
human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least
some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who did not
travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that arrived from faraway places.
Objects traveled various routes--personal, imperial, missionary, or trade--and
moved not only across space but also across cultures.Histories of the early
modern global culture of collecting have focused for the most part on European
"Wunderkammern," or "cabinets of curiosities." But the passion for acquiring
unfamiliar items rippled across many lands. The court in Java marveled at,
collected,
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780812222203
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Publishing Date 2013-06-05
Total Pages 392