This book presents corresponding images and essays of fifty early modern artefacts of encounters between European explorers and indigenous peoples, addressing relationships and material exchanges that extend beyond this framework to encompass diverse interactions across early modern societies.
The artefacts selected for inclusion in this volume convey early modern visual dialogues, value systems and imagery through paintings, photographs, maps, drawings, buildings, books, icons, sacred sites and entities, dwellings and natural settings. Placing these objects within a comparative and international context, O'Brien considers the representation of these interactions as they are expressed through a wide gamut of human emotional experiences such as life, death, grief, pain, pleasure, belief, sadness and conflict, along with the extended perspective of image reproduction. In doing so, the book locates the realities of early modern existence - the emotional, legal, spiritual and violent encounters that encompass everyday experiences - in an expansive and varying spatial, cultural, geographical and temporal context.
The book will interest students, scholars and general readers within a broad range of history subdisciplines including early modern history, indigenous history, comparative history and socio-legal history, and is also a useful text for undergraduate courses in politics, law, indigenous studies and global studies.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'O'Brien offers a bold and innovative analysis of meaningful emotional encounters between Europeans and Others across five geographical regions in the early modern era. The emotional dimensions of intercultural encounters, including love, desire, grief and loss, are explored through fifty objects reflecting the anxieties and tensions of the times. Focusing on material culture opens up new understandings of the complex relations and aspirations of colonizers and the people they colonized. This is a groundbreaking must read for any scholar of imperialism, colonialism and intercultural struggle.'
Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Illustrationen
25 s/w Abbildungen, 25 farbige Abbildungen, 25 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 25 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder
25 Halftones, color; 25 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, color; 25 Illustrations, black and white
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-36111-6 (9781032361116)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Karen O'Brien is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her notable works include Petitioning for Land: The Petitions of First Peoples of Modern British Colonies (2018) and Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships (2024).
Autor*in
University of Sydney, Australia
Introduction 1. Europe and the New World 2. Britain and Ireland 3. The United States of America 4. The Pacific Islands 5. Australasia
