The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative essays written by experts in the field explores the full range of material culture in the long eighteenth century, raising crucial questions about notions of property and invention, homely and commercial lives. The book also includes a series of well-illustrated exhibits, a startling and provocative assemblage of objects from the Enlightenment world, each accompanied by expert commentaries. The collection of essays and exhibits is the result of collaborative debate by scholars from Europe and north America, who have together worked on the cross-disciplinary importance of material history in making sense of how past society was fundamentally transformed through the world of goods.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Adriana Craciun
Authors:	Adriana Craciun
Editors:	Simon Schaffer
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	322
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-44579-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Promotions
LSN:	1-137-44579-3
Barcode:	9781137445797

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