The World in a Box - The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)

This is a book about a box that contained the world. The box was the "Picture Academy for the Young," a popular encyclopedia in pictures invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in eighteenth-century Germany. Children were expected to cut out the pictures from the "Academy," glue them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments--the whole world filed in a box of images.
As Anke te Heesen demonstrates, Stoy and his world in a box epitomized the Enlightenment concern with the creation and maintenance of an appropriate moral, intellectual, and social order. The box, and its images from nature, myth, and biblical history, were intended to teach children how to collect, store, and order knowledge. te Heesen compares the "Academy" with other aspects of Enlightenment material culture, such as commercial warehouses and natural history cabinets, to show how the kinds of collecting and ordering practices taught by the "Academy" shaped both the developing middle class in Germany and Enlightenment thought. "The World in a Box," illustrated with a multitude of images of and from Stoy's "Academy," offers a glimpse into a time when it was believed that knowledge could be contained and controlled.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Release date:	May 2002
First published:	May 2002
Authors:	Anke te Heesen
Translators:	Ann M. Hentschel
Dimensions:	238 x 162 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	244
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-32286-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > General encyclopaedias Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-226-32286-6
Barcode:	9780226322865

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