Collecting across cultures
Subtitle: material exchanges in the early Atlantic world
By: edited by Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall
Series: Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780812243055
Description: "The fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures represent new work by an international group of historians, art historians, and historians of science. Each author explores a specific aspect of the cross-cultural history of collecting and display from the dawn of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century. As the essays attest, an examination of early modern collecting in cross-cultural contexts sheds light on the creative and complicated ways in which objects in collections served to create knowledge - some factual, some fictional - about distant peoples in an increasingly transnational world."-- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.