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Inventing Exoticism - Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World (Paperback)
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Inventing Exoticism - Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World (Paperback)
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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 richly textured study of
cultural geography. Inventing Exoticism draws on a vast range of
sources from history, literature, science, and art to describe the
energetic and sustained international engagements that gave birth
to our modern conceptions of exoticism and globalism. Illustrated
with more than two hundred images of engravings, paintings,
ceramics, and more, Inventing Exoticism shows, in vivid example and
persuasive detail, how Europeans came to see and understand the
world at an especially critical juncture of imperial imagination.
At the turn to the eighteenth century, European markets were
flooded by books and artifacts that described or otherwise evoked
non-European realms: histories and ethnographies of overseas
kingdoms, travel narratives and decorative maps, lavishly produced
tomes illustrating foreign flora and fauna, and numerous decorative
objects in the styles of distant cultures. Inventing Exoticism
meticulously analyzes these, while further identifying the
particular role of the Dutch-"Carryers of the World," as Defoe
famously called them-in the business of exotica. The form of early
modern exoticism that sold so well, as this book shows, originated
not with expansion-minded imperialists of London and Paris, but in
the canny ateliers of Holland. By scrutinizing these materials from
the perspectives of both producers and consumers-and paying close
attention to processes of cultural mediation-Inventing Exoticism
interrogates traditional postcolonial theories of knowledge and
power. It proposes a wholly revisionist understanding of geography
in a pivotal age of expansion and offers a crucial historical
perspective on our own global culture as it engages in a
media-saturated world.
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