Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came t

What can we learn about the past by studying things? How does the meaning of things, and our relationship to them, change over time? This fascinating collection

Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Cl

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and

The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly