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  • Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds

    Edición de Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, Duygu Yıldırım ...
    The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitcher plant to a shell-like skinned armadillo - and the humans enthralled with them.Episodes from 1500 to the early 1900s reveal connected histories across early modern worlds as natural things traveled ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

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  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

    Edición de Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty ...
    Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology—a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of ... Leer más

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  • Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

    New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

    de Joyce Appleby ...
    An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science.When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Birds and Us

    A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation

    de Tim Birkhead ...
    From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humansSince the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their ... Leer más

    $27.39 USD

  • Becoming Yellow

    A Short History of Racial Thinking

    de Michael Keevak ...
    The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinkingIn their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to ... Leer más

    $51.89 USD

  • The World According to Color

    A Cultural History

    de James Fox ...
    A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color.We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Prehistoric Rock Art

    Polemics and Progress

    de Paul G. Bahn ...
    Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world. Summarizing the recent advances in our understanding of this extraordinary visual record, he discusses new discoveries, new approaches to recording and interpretation, and current problems in conservation. Bahn focuses in particular on current issues in the interpretation of rock art, ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Inventing 'Easter Island'

    de Beverley Haun ...
    Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants, is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of South America. Annexed by Chile in 1888, the island has been a source of fascination for the world beyond the island since the first visit by Europeans in 1722 due to its intriguing statues and complex history. Inventing 'Easter Island' examines narrative strategies and visual ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Colonial Botany

    Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World

    Edición de Londa Schiebinger, Claudia Swan ...
    In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a historiography that has emphasized the rise of modern botany as a story of taxonomies and "pure" systems of ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

    New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

    de Surekha Davies ...
    Series Libro 24 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
    Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration

    Edición de Mary D. Sheriff ...
    Series series Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
    Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped the visual arts of Europe in fundamental ways between 1492 and the early twentieth century ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • History of Science: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    de Susan Scott Parrish ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD