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Crafting Enlightenment - Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks (Paperback)
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Crafting Enlightenment - Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2021:06
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A ground-breaking volume examining the transnational conditions of
the European Enlightenment, Crafting Enlightenment argues that
artisans of the long eighteenth-century on four different
continents created and disseminated ideas that revolutionized how
we understand modern-day craftsmanship, design, labor, and
technology. Starting in Europe, this book journeys through France
across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas and then on to Asia and
Oceania. Highlighting diverse identities of artisans, the authors
trace how these historical actors formed networks at local and
global levels to assert their own forms of expertise and
experience. These artisans - some anonymous, eminent, and outside
the margins - translated European Enlightenment thinking into a
number of disciplines and trades including architecture, botany,
ceramics, construction, furniture, gardening, horology, interior
design, manuscript illustration, and mining. In each thematic
section of this illustrated volume, two leading scholars present
contrasting case studies of artisans in different geographic
contexts. These paired chapters are also followed by shorter
commentary that reflects on pertinent themes from both chapters.
Emphasizing how and why artisanal histories around the world
impacted civic and private life, commerce, cultural engagement, and
sense of place, this book introduces new richness and depth to the
conversations around the ambivalent and fragmented nature of the
Enlightenment.
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