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

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

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

The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which ‘things’, ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shapin

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