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Innocence Abroad explores the process of encounter that took place between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "discovery" of America coincided with the foundation of the Dutch Republic, a correspondence of much significance for the Netherlands. From the opening of their Revolt against Hapsburg Spain through the climax of their Golden Age, the Dutch looked to America--in political pamphlets and patriotic histories, epic poetry and allegorical prints, landscape painting and decorative maps--for a means of articulating a new national identity. This book demonstrates how the image of America fashioned by the Dutch, and especially the twin topoi of "innocence" and "tyranny," became integrally associated with evolving political, moral and economic agenda. It investigates the energetic Dutch response to the New World while examining, more generally, the operation of geographic discourse and colonial ideology within the Dutch Golden Age.
The fruits of knowledge--such as books, data, and ideas--tend to
generate far more attention than the ways in which knowledge is
produced and acquired. Correcting this imbalance, "Making Knowledge
in Early Modern Europe" brings together a wide-ranging yet tightly
integrated series of essays that explore how knowledge was obtained
and demonstrated in Europe during an intellectually explosive four
centuries, when standard methods of inquiry took shape across
several fields of intellectual pursuit.
Composed by scholars in disciplines ranging from the history of
science to art history to religious studies, the pieces collected
here look at the production and consumption of knowledge as a
social process within many different communities. They focus, in
particular, on how the methods employed by scientists and
intellectuals came to interact with the practices of craftspeople
and practitioners to create new ways of knowing. Examining the role
of texts, reading habits, painting methods, and countless other
forms of knowledge making, this volume brilliantly illuminates the
myriad ways these processes affected and were affected by the
period's monumental shifts in culture and learning.
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.
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.
Petit Ruri is aprognostic book about current Europian Psychiatry of
21 Century. After Jon Cohen stilistics like Californica, Le
Societe. Lui et compra
Goliath - The story of Archaeology, Palaeontology and the purchase
of a property in France..
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