Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period

Published by University of Toronto Press 2022

Making Worlds

Global Invention in the Early Modern Period

Edited by: Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson

In the series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487544966

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About this book

Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.

Author / Editor information

Vanhaelen Angela :

Angela Vanhaelen is a professor of art history at McGill University.
Wilson Bronwen :

Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Memorial Clark Library at UCLA.

Reviews

Marjorie Rubright, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst:

"Breathtaking in scope, Making Worlds opens onto the vast web of global connectivity that comes into view when new questions are raised about the local specificity of early modern artefacts, texts, objects, images, and practices. This collection offers a geographically expansive, methodologically wide-ranging, and materially diverse assemblage of beautifully conceived interdisciplinary studies that constitute an important and timely pivot in early modern scholarship toward mundialization. There is something here for humanists of all stripes who will discover connections within and across the chapters that challenge disciplinary silos."

Michael Gaudio, Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota:

"The essays in this impressive volume focus our attention on the ‘in-between spaces’ of the global early modern, where differing vantage points came into contact and jostled against one another. By emphasizing how these spaces were negotiated through the lives of things such as folding fans, eggs, and board games, they show how early modernity, even as it resulted in the destruction of many societies, initiated a creative process of world-making."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1 Introduction Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Material Flows
2 The Early Modern Fold: Pleated Media Kristopher W. Kersey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3 From Textile to Text: Cloth, Slavery, and the Archive in the Dutch Atlantic Carrie Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4 Drawing Worlds: Bodies and Smoke in the Courtly Ballet Il Tabacco (1650) Elisa Antonietta Daniele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5 From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art and Ambivalence in Early Modern Japan Benjamin Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
6 Eggs, Cheese, and (Francis) Bacon Helen Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Part II: In-Between Spaces
7 The Production of Imprecision: Reframing Non-European Objects in Early Modern European Collections Daniela Bleichmar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
8 Le Jeu du monde : Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern France Ting Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
9 The World Contained in an Imperial Ottoman Album Emine Fetvací Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
10 World Building, the Folger Folios, and the University of British Columbia Patricia Badir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
11 Ascetic Ecology: Landscape of a Desert Saint Lyle Massey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
12 The End of All: Worldliness, Piety, and the Social Life of Maps in the Post-Reformation English Household Gavin Hollis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
13 Enlightenment Cosmology: A Medialogical Interpretation J. B. Shank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
14 Masked Alliances: Global Politics and Economy in the Art and Performance Rituals of Mexico’s Indigenous People John M.D. Pohl and Danny Zborover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	406
15 Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch Republic Thijs Weststeijn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	436
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 512
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 90
- Other: 20 b&w illustrations, 70 colour illustrations
Keywords: cultural history of globalization; art history; Renaissance; literary history; invention; world history; early modern period; transculturation; early modern Japan; Dutch Republic; textiles; material culture

eBook

Published: November 1, 2022
ISBN: 9781487544966