Benjamin Schmidt

Inventing Exoticism

Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World

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Produktbeschreibung

Benjamin Schmidt is the Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington and author of several books, including the prize-winning Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 185mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9780812246469
• ISBN-10: 0812246462
• Artikelnr.: 42197079

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Schmidt is the Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington and author of several books, including the prize-winning Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction. On the Invention of Exoticism and the Invention of Europe
Chapter 1. Printing the World: Processed Books and Exotic Stereotypes
Chapter 2. Seeing the World: Visuality and Exoticism
Chapter 3. Exotic Bodies: Sex and Violence Abroad
Chapter 4. Exotic Pleasures: Geography, Material Arts, and the "Agreeable"
World
Epilogue. From Promiscuous Assemblage to Order and Method: Europe and Its
Exotic Worlds
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments