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Title:

The global lives of things : the material culture of connections in the early modern world / edited by Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvi, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Material culture--History.
Globalization--History.
Social networks--History.
Commerce--History.
Colonies--History.
History, Modern.
Economic history.

Other Authors:

Gerritsen, Anne.
Riello, Giorgio.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The global lives of things : material culture in the first global age / Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello -- Itineraries of materials and knowledge in the early modern world / Pamela H. Smith -- Towards a global history of shagreen / Christine Guth -- The coral network : the trade of red coral to the Qing imperial court in the eighteenth century / Pippa Lacey -- Beyond the kunstkammer : Brazilian featherwork in early modern Europe / Mariana Fran©ʹozo -- The empire in the duke's palace : global material culture in sixteenth-century Portugal / Nuno Senos -- Dishes, coins and pipes : the epistemological and emotional power of VOC material culture in Australia / Susan Broomhall -- Encounters around the material object : French and Indian consumers in eighteenth-century Pondicherry / K©♭vin Le Doudic -- Customs and consumption : Russia's global tobacco habits in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Matthew P. Romaniello -- Sugar revisited : sweetness and the environment in the early modern world / Urmi Engineer -- Coffee, mind and body : global material culture and the eighteenth-century Hamburg import trade / Christine Fertig and Ulrich Pfister -- Afterword : how (early modern) things travel / Paula Findlen -- Afterword : objects and their worlds / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Afterword : things in global history / Maxine Berg.

Summary:

"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 'globalisation' in the early modern period. This volume traces the movements of objects through human networks of commerce, colonialism and curiosity. 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"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1138776750 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9781138776753 (paperback : alkaline paper)
1138776661 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9781138776661 (hardback : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)893453689

LCCN:

2015019553

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)