{"product_id":"empire-of-the-senses-sensory-practices-of-colonialism-in-early-america-9789004340633","title":"Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmpire of the Senses brings together pathbreaking scholarship on the role the five senses played in early America. With perspectives from across the hemisphere, exploring individual senses and multi-sensory frameworks, the volume explores how sensory perception helped frame cultural encounters, colonial knowledge, and political relationships. From early French interpretations of intercultural touch, to English plans to restructure the scent of Jamaica, these essays elucidate different ways the expansion of rival European empires across the Americas involved a vast interconnected range of sensory experiences and practices. Empire of the Senses offers a new comparative perspective on the way European imperialism was constructed, operated, implemented and, sometimes, counteracted by rich and complex new sensory frameworks in the diverse contexts of early America.   This book has been listed on the Books of Note section on the website of Sensory Studies, which is dedicated to highlighting the top books in sensory studies: www.sensorystudies.org\/books-of-note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This volume edited by Hacke and Musselwhite presents substantial, thought-provoking research in the blooming field of sensory history of the Americas, allowing for a deeper understanding of early modern European association of specific sensory regimes with imperial authority.”  Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, University of Zurich. In: Emotions, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2018), pp. 347-349.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Introduction: Making Sense of Colonial Encounters and New Worlds   Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite  Part 1: Cultural Encounters  1 Touching on Communication: Visual and Textual Representations of Touch as Friendship in Early Colonial Encounters  Céline Carayon 2 Mission Soundscapes: Demons, Jesuits, and Sounds in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya’s Conquista Espiritual (1639)  Jutta Toelle 3 Singing with Strangers in Early Seventeenth-century New France  Michaela Ann Cameron  Part 2: Colonial Subjectivity 4 The Pain of Senses Escaping: Eighteenth-century Europeans and the Sensory Challenges of the Caribbean  Annika Raapke 5 Color Visions: Perceiving Nature in the Portuguese Atlantic World  Marília dos Santos Lopes  Part 3: Structures of Knowledge 6 Colonial Sensescapes: Thomas Harriot and the Production of Knowledge  Daniela Hacke 7 Merian and the Pineapple: Visual Representation of the Senses  Megan Baumhammer and Claire Kennedy 8 “Delightful a Fragrance”: Native American Olfactory Aesthetics Within the Eighteenth-century Anglo-American Botanical Community  Andrew Kettler  Part 4: Colonial Projects 9 The Aromas of Flora’s Wide Domains: Cultivating Gardens, Aromas, and Political Subjects in the Late Seventeenth-century English Atlantic  Kate Mulry 10 Exploring Underwater Worlds: Diving in the Late Seventeenth-\/Early Eighteenth-century British Empire  Rebekka von Mallinckrodt  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210701201751,"sku":"9789004340633","price":136.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empire-of-the-senses-sensory-practices-of-colonialism-in-early-america-9789004340633","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}