The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences

By:

Adriana Craciun

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Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

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In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative essays written by experts in the field explores the full range of material culture in the long eighteenth century, raising crucial questions about notions of property and invention, homely and commercial lives. The book also includes a series of well-illustrated exhibits, a startling and provocative assemblage of objects from the Enlightenment world, each accompanied by expert commentaries. The collection of essays and exhibits is the result of collaborative debate by scholars from Europe and north America, who have together worked on the cross-disciplinary importance of material history in making sense of how past society was fundamentally transformed through the world of goods.

Author Biography:

Adriana Craciun is University of California Presidential Chair at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She has previously taught at the University of London and the University of Nottingham. She is the author of numerous works on British literature and culture, the history of exploration and Arctic studies. Simon Schaffer is Professor of History of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is coeditor of The Sciences in Enlightened Europe (1999) and of The Brokered World: Go-betweens and Global Intelligence 1770-1820 (2009).

Release date NZ

September 5th, 2016

Author

Adriana Craciun

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Contributors

Edited by Adriana Craciun
Edited by Simon Schaffer

Edition

1st ed. 2016

Illustrations

36 Illustrations, color; 18 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 322 p. 54 illus., 36 illus. in color.

Pages

322

Series

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

Dimensions

155x235x21

ISBN-13

9781137445797

Product ID

24586969

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