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This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of
offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we
propose a 'micro-spatial' approach, combining micro-history with
the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of
the historical discontinuities and unevennesses characterizes the
global history that emerges here. We use labour as our lens in this
volume. The resulting micro-spatial history of labour addresses the
management and recruitment of labour, its voluntary and coerced
spatial mobility, its political perception and representation and
the workers' own agency and social networks. The individual
chapters are written by contributors whose expertise covers the
late medieval Eastern Mediterranean to present-day Sierra Leone,
through early modern China and Italy, eighteenth-century Cuba and
the Malvinas/Falklands, the journeys of a missionary between India
and Brazil and those of Christian captives across the Ottoman
empire and Spain. The result is a highly readable volume that
addresses key theoretical and methodological questions in
historiography. Chapter 7 is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license
via link.springer.com.
Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used
in the historical study of material culture. Looking at
archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the
book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the
relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book
addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and
the representations of objects in public history, bringing together
students and specialists from around the world. This new edition
includes: A new substantive introduction from the editors,
providing a useful roadmap for students and specialists. A more
balanced and easy-to-use structure, including methodological
chapters and ‘object in focus’ chapters consisting of case
studies for classroom discussion. New chapters showing greater
engagement with 20th-century material culture, non-European
artefacts and the definitions and limits of material culture as a
discipline. Offers global coverage and discussion of both the early
modern and modern periods. Writing Material Culture History 2e is
an essential tool for students seeking to understand the potential
of objects to re-cast established historical narratives in new and
exciting ways.
Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine,
this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World
and explores how they understood and engaged with health and
medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging
existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines
'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were
understood and engaged with in various settings and for a number of
purposes. Offering new spatial realms within which the circulation
of commodities created new regimes of meaning, Histories of Health
and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World demonstrates how
medicinal substances have had immediate and far-reaching economic
and political consequences in various capacities. From midwifery
and umbilical cords, to the social spaces of soap, perfumes in
early modern India and remedies for leprosy, this volume considers
a vast range of material culture in medicinal settings to better
understand the history of medicine and its role in global
connections since the early 17th century.
The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which 'things',
ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials,
participated in the shaping of global connections in the period
1400-1800. By focusing on the material exchange between Asia,
Europe, the Americas and Australia, this volume traces the
movements of objects through human networks of commerce,
colonialism and consumption. It argues that material objects
mediated between the forces of global economic exchange and the
constantly changing identities of individuals, as they were drawn
into global circuits. It proposes a reconceptualization of early
modern global history in the light of its material culture by
asking the question: what can we learn about the early modern world
by studying its objects? This exciting new collection draws
together the latest scholarship in the study of material culture
and offers students a critique and explanation of the notion of
commodity and a reinterpretation of the meaning of exchange. It
engages with the concepts of 'proto-globalization', 'the first
global age' and 'commodities/consumption'. Divided into three
parts, the volume considers in Part One, Objects of Global
Knowledge, in Part Two, Objects of Global Connections, and finally,
in Part Three, Objects of Global Consumption. The collection
concludes with afterwords from three of the leading historians in
the field, Maxine Berg, Suraiya Faroqhi and Paula Findlen, who
offer their critical view of the methodologies and themes
considered in the book and place its arguments within the wider
field of scholarship. Extensively illustrated, and with chapters
examining case studies from Northern Europe to China and Australia,
this book will be essential reading for students of global history.
This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played
in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia,
Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge
the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift
giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters
between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, Dutch, and
English) and Asian empires (including Ottoman, Persian, Mughal, Sri
Lankan, Chinese, and Japanese cases). They examine how those
exchanges influenced the global production and circulation of art
and material culture, and explore the types of gifts exchanged, the
chosen materials, and the manner of their presentation. Global
Gifts establishes new parameters for the study of the material and
aesthetic culture of Eurasian relations before 1800, exploring the
meaning of artistic objects in global diplomacy and the existence
of economic and aesthetic values mutually intelligible across
cultural boundaries.
The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which 'things',
ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials,
participated in the shaping of global connections in the period
1400-1800. By focusing on the material exchange between Asia,
Europe, the Americas and Australia, this volume traces the
movements of objects through human networks of commerce,
colonialism and consumption. It argues that material objects
mediated between the forces of global economic exchange and the
constantly changing identities of individuals, as they were drawn
into global circuits. It proposes a reconceptualization of early
modern global history in the light of its material culture by
asking the question: what can we learn about the early modern world
by studying its objects? This exciting new collection draws
together the latest scholarship in the study of material culture
and offers students a critique and explanation of the notion of
commodity and a reinterpretation of the meaning of exchange. It
engages with the concepts of 'proto-globalization', 'the first
global age' and 'commodities/consumption'. Divided into three
parts, the volume considers in Part One, Objects of Global
Knowledge, in Part Two, Objects of Global Connections, and finally,
in Part Three, Objects of Global Consumption. The collection
concludes with afterwords from three of the leading historians in
the field, Maxine Berg, Suraiya Faroqhi and Paula Findlen, who
offer their critical view of the methodologies and themes
considered in the book and place its arguments within the wider
field of scholarship. Extensively illustrated, and with chapters
examining case studies from Northern Europe to China and Australia,
this book will be essential reading for students of global history.
The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to
enclose something. Few objects are as universal and
multi-functional as a jar - regardless of whether they contain food
or drink, matter or a void, life-giving medicine or the ashes of
the deceased. As ubiquitous as they may seem, such containers,
storage vessels and urns are, as this book demonstrates, highly
significant cultural and historical artefacts that mediate between
content and environment, exterior worlds and interior enclosures,
local and global, this-worldly and otherworldly realms. The
contributors to this volume understand jars not only as household
utensils or evidence of human civilizations, but also as artefacts
in their own right. Asian jars are culturally and aesthetically
defined crafted goods and as objects charged with spiritual
meanings and ritual significance. Transformative Jars situates
Asian jars in a global context and focuses on relationships between
the filling, emptying and re-filling of jars with a variety of
contents and meanings through time and throughout space.
Transformative Jars brings together an interdisciplinary team of
scholars with backgrounds in curating, art history and anthropology
to offer perspectives that go beyond archaeological approaches with
detailed analyses of a broad range of objects. By looking at jars
as things in the hands of makers, users and collectors, this book
presents these objects as agents of change in cultures of
craftsmanship and consumption.
Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used
in the historical study of material culture. Looking at
archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the
book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the
relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book
addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and
the representations of objects in public history, bringing together
students and specialists from around the world. This new edition
includes: A new substantive introduction from the editors,
providing a useful roadmap for students and specialists. A more
balanced and easy-to-use structure, including methodological
chapters and 'object in focus' chapters consisting of case studies
for classroom discussion. New chapters showing greater engagement
with 20th-century material culture, non-European artefacts and the
definitions and limits of material culture as a discipline. Offers
global coverage and discussion of both the early modern and modern
periods. Writing Material Culture History 2e is an essential tool
for students seeking to understand the potential of objects to
re-cast established historical narratives in new and exciting ways.
The Human Tradition in Premodern China is a collection of
biographical essays revealing the variety and complexity of human
experience in China from the earliest historical times to the dawn
of the modern age. China is a vast country with a long history, and
one which is by itself as complex as the history of Europe. This
broad expanse of time and space in Chinese history has largely been
approached in terms of narrative political and cultural history in
most books. The reigns of emperors and the thoughts of the great
masters such as Confucius or Laozi have been the principal focus.
Yet the history of the Chinese, as with any great people, is built
up from the lives of individuals, families, groups, and movements.
By presenting life stories of individuals ranging from ancient
court diviners to late imperial merchants to women in various
periods, this engaging anthology highlights aspects of Chinese
social, political and intellectual history not usually addressed.
Additionally, The Human Tradition in Premodern China broadens the
common image and understanding of society based on the dominant
elite male discourse. Rich in new perspective and new scholarship,
The Human Tradition in Premodern China is an ideal introduction to
Chinese history, East Asian history, and world history.
We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global
commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean
including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers
desired Chinese porcelains. Many of these were made in the kilns in
and surrounding Jingdezhen. Found in almost every part of the
world, Jingdezhen's porcelains had a far-reaching impact on global
consumption, which in turn shaped the local manufacturing
processes. The imperial kilns of Jingdezhen produced ceramics for
the court, while nearby private kilns manufactured for the global
market. In this beautifully illustrated study, Anne Gerritsen asks
how this kiln complex could manufacture such quality, quantity and
variety. She explores how objects tell the story of the past,
connecting texts with objects, objects with natural resources, and
skilled hands with the shapes and designs they produced. Through
the manufacture and consumption of Jingdezhen's porcelains, she
argues, China participated in the early modern world.
This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played
in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia,
Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge
the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift
giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters
between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, Dutch, and
English) and Asian empires (including Ottoman, Persian, Mughal, Sri
Lankan, Chinese, and Japanese cases). They examine how those
exchanges influenced the global production and circulation of art
and material culture, and explore the types of gifts exchanged, the
chosen materials, and the manner of their presentation. Global
Gifts establishes new parameters for the study of the material and
aesthetic culture of Eurasian relations before 1800, exploring the
meaning of artistic objects in global diplomacy and the existence
of economic and aesthetic values mutually intelligible across
cultural boundaries.
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