{"product_id":"inventing-exoticism-9780812224504","title":"Inventing Exoticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In its originality as a thesis, in its elegance of phrasing and conception, and in the erudition it embodies, Schmidt's work serves as a profound investigation of its subject matter. . . . Anyone who wants to understand how our early modern forebears saw the world may expect to find pleasure and instruction herein.\" * \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[E]legantly written and beautifully produced . . . \u003ci\u003eInventing Exoticism\u003c\/i\u003e is an inventive and perceptive book. It lucidly combines detailed analysis of specific texts and objects with discussion of larger themes invaluable for any reader interested in early modern European identities and perceptions. Crucially too, with his thorough accounts of particular objects and their wider intellectual implications, Schmidt provides an important historiographical service in showing how concepts and materiality can intersect.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Global History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Much like the books it studies, \u003ci\u003eInventing Exoticism\u003c\/i\u003e is beautifully produced . . . it is also extremely well-written . . . Schmidt takes his readers on an impressive tour de force through seven decades of (mostly Dutch-made) exotic iconography as it appeared in books, atlases, paintings, porcelain, tapestries, cabinets, and other media. Schmidt's effortless interweaving of book history, art history, and the history of global encounters will enhance the book's wide appeal.\" * \u003ci\u003eItinerario\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Benjamin Schmidt has written a remarkable and remarkably innovative account of a remarkable phenomenon. \u003ci\u003eInventing Exoticism\u003c\/i\u003e is a very substantial contribution to the study of the cultural history of early modern perceptions of the non-European world, to the history of the book, and to the history of the economics and the sociology of the flow of information. It shows for the first time just how instrumental the concern with the exotic was in the creation of the modern image of Europe and of Europe's place in an increasingly global world.\" * Anthony Pagden, University of California, Los Angeles *\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating and brilliantly resourceful study of early modern Dutch geography. In energetic and readable prose, \u003ci\u003eInventing Exoticism\u003c\/i\u003e marshals a wealth of carefully indexed details around big picture questions about how we see other regions and peoples.\" * Mary C. Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. On the Invention of Exoticism and the Invention of Europe\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Printing the World: Processed Books and Exotic Stereotypes\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Seeing the World: Visuality and Exoticism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Exotic Bodies: Sex and Violence Abroad\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Exotic Pleasures: Geography, Material Arts, and the \"Agreeable\" World\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. From Promiscuous Assemblage to Order and Method: Europe and Its Exotic Worlds\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865979990359,"sku":"9780812224504","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812224504.jpg?v=1722276478","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/inventing-exoticism-9780812224504","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}