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History Renaissance

Making Worlds

Global Invention in the Early Modern Period

edited by Angela Vanhaelen & Bronwen Wilson

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2022
Category
Renaissance, Renaissance, Renaissance
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487544935
    Publish Date
    Dec 2022
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487544959
    Publish Date
    Nov 2022
    List Price
    $95.00

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Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period.

 

This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology. The volume advances questions about the history of globalization by focusing on how the expansion of global transit offered possibilities for interactions that included the testing of local identities through inventive experimentation with new and various forms of culture. Case studies show how the imposition of European economic, religious, political, and military models on other parts of the world unleashed unprecedented forces of invention as institutionalized powers came up against the creativity of peoples, cultural practices, materials, and techniques of making. In doing so, Making Worlds offers an important rethinking of how early globalization inconsistently generated ongoing dynamics of making, unmaking, and remaking worlds.

About the authors

Angela Vanhaelen is Professor of Art History at McGill University. She is the author of the award-winning book The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic, also published by Penn State University Press.

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Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Memorial Clark Library at UCLA.

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