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Peiresc's Europe
Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century
Inbunden, 2000
872 kr
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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was, during his lifetime, one of Europe’s most famous men. A friend of Pope Urban VIII and Galileo, of Peter-Paul Rubens and Hugo Grotius, of Tommaso Campanella and Marin Mersenne, Peiresc played an important role in the intellectual culture of his time. …
Richard Tuttle
What Is the Object?
Inbunden, 2022
1270 kr
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A beautifully designed volume exploring the object collection of the influential American artist Richard TuttleFor Richard Tuttle (b. 1941), the object, as well as the work, is intended for communication. Where others find in history answers to the questions objects pose, Tuttle instead finds the …
Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800
Av Francois Louis, Peter N. Miller
E-bok, 2012
1170 kr
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This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise in …
Sea
Thalassography and Historiography
E-bok, 2013
1170 kr
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The Sea brings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based …
Cultural Histories of the Material World
E-bok, 2013
780 kr
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All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality. This is the first book to capture and study the “material turn” in the humanities from all its varied perspectives. Cultural Histories of the Material World brings together top scholars from all these different …
Defining the Common Good
Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 1994
1715 kr
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The theme of this book is the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain. The revolt of the North American colonies and the simultaneous demand for wider religious toleration at home challenged the principles of sovereignty and obligation that underpinned arguments about the …
Defining the Common Good
Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Av Peter N. Miller, Quentin Skinner
Häftad, 2004
634 kr
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The theme of this book is the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain. The revolt of the North American colonies and the simultaneous demand for wider religious toleration at home challenged the principles of sovereignty and obligation that underpinned arguments about the …
Peiresc’s Mediterranean World
Häftad, 2017
324 kr
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Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was a “prince” of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc’s study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of …
On Conservation as a Human Science
Inbunden, 2026
282 kr
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Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it. In this erudite and virtuosic …
On Conservation as a Human Science
E-bok, 2026
400 kr
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Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at risk Conservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it. In this erudite and virtuosic …
Research
A Manifesto
E-bok, 2026
279 kr
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A short, bold, and timely history and defense of research in the humanities and sciences and its incalculable importanceIf there were a single tool that could cure disease, improve the quality of human life, send people into outer space, and uncover vital riddles from the deepest past, wouldn't we …
Research
A Manifesto
E-bok, 2026
286 kr
Kommande
A short, bold, and timely history and defense of research in the humanities and sciences and its incalculable importanceIf there were a single tool that could cure disease, improve the quality of human life, send people into outer space, and uncover vital riddles from the deepest past, wouldn't we …
History and Its Objects
Antiquarianism and Material Culture Since 1500
Inbunden, 2017
589 kr
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Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, as well as anthropologists and archeologists worldwide. - Nathan Schlanger, École nationale des chartes, ParisCultural history is increasingly informed …
Song of the Soul
Understanding Poppea
Av Iain Fenlon, Peter N. Miller
Inbunden, 1992
2586 kr
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L'incoronazione di Poppea is the most compelling of all early Italian operas and this has, in part, been responsible for the way in which it has become separated from its social and historical context. In this book, Iain Fenlon and Peter Miller show how an understanding of contemporary Venetian …
Peiresc's Orient
Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century
Häftad, 2017
772 kr
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The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc's study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this …
Peiresc's Orient
Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century
E-bok, 2017
994 kr
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The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc''s study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this …
Peiresc's Orient
Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century
E-bok, 2017
910 kr
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The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc''s study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this …
Momigliano and Antiquarianism
Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences
Häftad, 2014
484 kr
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One of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) is known for his path-breaking studies of ancient Greek and Roman history. The encyclopedic knowledge of the ancient world that Momigliano brought to his work, however, enabled him to make connections between …
Momigliano and Antiquarianism
Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences
E-bok, 2007
655 kr
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One of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) is known for his path-breaking studies of ancient Greek and Roman history. The encyclopedic knowledge of the ancient world that Momigliano brought to his work, however, enabled him to make connections between …
Peiresc's History of Provence
Antiquarianism and the Discovery of a Medieval Mediterranean Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 101, Part 3)
Häftad, 2011
519 kr
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Museum in the Cultural Sciences - Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture in the Twentieth Century
Av Peter N. Miller, Annika Fisher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
825 kr
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In early twentieth-century Berlin, the museumsdebate was set into motion with Wilhelm von Bode's sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city's museums. Between 1907 and 1910, two particularly striking series of articles appeared in the journal Museumskunde: Journal for the Administration …
Cultural Histories of the Material World
Av Peter N. Miller, Peter N. Miller
Häftad, 2019
228 kr
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Bringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, Cultural Histories of the Material World provides a substantial collection of works that explore materiality and material culture from a historical perspective. These scholars represent some of the most …
Conserving Active Matter
Av Peter N. Miller, Soon Kai Poh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
565 kr
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Considers the future of conservation and its connection to the human sciences. This volume brings together the findings from a five-year research project that seeks to reimagine the relationship between conservation knowledge and the humanistic study of the material world. The project, “Cultures of …
What is Conservation?
Häftad, 2023
228 kr
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Thought-provoking discussions on conservation from various points of view.What is Conservation? is an unconventional introduction to the topic of conservation in all its forms, facilitated through discussions with MacArthur Fellows. The discussions took place in New York in the Spring of 2022 …
Dutch New York, between East and West
The World of Margrieta van Varick
Av Deborah L. Krohn, Marybeth De Filippis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
880 kr
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Commemorating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage and the lasting legacy of Dutch culture in New York, this book explores the life and times of a fascinating woman, her family, and her things. Margrieta was born in the Netherlands but lived at the extremes of the Dutch colonial world, in …
Peiresc's Orient
Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century
Inbunden, 2012
1638 kr
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The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc's study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this …
