Pamela H. Smith

Benjamin Schmidt

Aims to bring together essays that explore how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe during an intellectually explosive four centuries, when standard methods of inquiry took shape across several fields of intellectual pursuit. This book looks at production and consumption of knowledge as a social process within different communities.

Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 - 1800

Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Goliath - The story of Archaeology, Palaeontology and the purchase of a property in France..

Goliath

Joyce Diane Goodfriend

Annette Stott

This volume investigates the place of Dutch history and Dutch-derived culture in America over the last four centuries. It considers how the Dutch have fared in America, and it explores how American conceptions of Dutchness have developed, from Henry Hudson's historic voyage to Manhattan in 1609 through the rise of Dutch design at the turn of the twenty-first century. Essays probe a rich array of topics: Dutch themes in American arts and letters; the place of Dutch paintings in American collections; shifting American interests in Dutch art, literature, and architecture; the experience of Dutch immigrants in America; and the Dutch Reformed Church in America. "Going Dutch" presents a much needed overview of the Dutch-American experience from its beginnings to the present. Contributors include: Julie Berger Hochstrasser, Willem Frijhoff, Joyce D. Goodfriend, Hans Krabbendam, Joseph Manca, Nancy T. Minty, Mark A. Peterson, Christopher Pierce, Judith Richardson, Louisa Wood Ruby, Benjamin Schmidt, Robert Schoone-Jongen, Annette Stott, Tity de Vries, and Dennis P. Weller.

The Dutch Presence in America, 1609-2009

Going Dutch

Petit Ruri is aprognostic book about current Europian Psychiatry of 21 Century. After Jon Cohen stilistics like Californica, Le Societe. Lui et compra

Petit Ruri

Mit der Neufassung des schwarzhumorigen Jugendromans "Schon immer ein Krüppel" gewährt Benjamin Schmidt Einblicke in ein Leben, das gänzlich neu erfunden werden will. Er zeichnet dabei nicht nur ein schonungslos ehrliches Bild diverser Problematiken bei Querschnittslähmung, sondern auch das einer Jugend, die gegen alles, vor allem die eigenen Unzulänglichkeiten, rebellieren möchte und dabei jeden Atemzug in Frage stellt.Schmidt schreibt lebensnah von surrealen Begegnungen in der Psychiatrie, von Sex im Rollstuhl und vom "Umgang mit gesunden Menschen", das heißt, Menschen, die sich für gesund halten. Zeile für Zeile werden so Vorurteile und Dankbarrieren abgebaut und eingerissen.Franziska Appel pointiert mit ihren skizzenhaften Illustrationen die Essenz der einzelnen Kapitel. Und solange der Vorrat reicht, bekommen BestellerInnen dieses Buches ein Kunstpostkartenset kostenlos dazu. Viel Glück!

Schon immer ein Krüppel

The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570-1670

Innocence Abroad

Julian's Adventures begin and the translator of Jon Cohen's Almost Shimpanzee leads us into a plot of High Danger. --------------- Interesting guide to drawing Palaeontology All rights reserved The Ruby Necklace

Tended Stones - With Illustrations

As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the subject of this highly original and richly textured study of cultural geography. Inventing Exoticism draws on a vast range of sources from history, literature, science, and art to describe the energetic and sustained international engagements that gave birth to our modern conceptions of exoticism and globalism. Illustrated with more than two hundred images of engravings, paintings, ceramics, and more, Inventing Exoticism shows, in vivid example and persuasive detail, how Europeans came to see and understand the world at an especially critical juncture of imperial imagination. At the turn to the eighteenth century, European markets were flooded by books and artifacts that described or otherwise evoked non-European realms: histories and ethnographies of overseas kingdoms, travel narratives and decorative maps, lavishly produced tomes illustrating foreign flora and fauna, and numerous decorative objects in the styles of distant cultures. Inventing Exoticism meticulously analyzes these, while further identifying the particular role of the Dutch—"Carryers of the World," as Defoe famously called them—in the business of exotica. The form of early modern exoticism that sold so well, as this book shows, originated not with expansion-minded imperialists of London and Paris, but in the canny ateliers of Holland. By scrutinizing these materials from the perspectives of both producers and consumers—and paying close attention to processes of cultural mediation—Inventing Exoticism interrogates traditional postcolonial theories of knowledge and power. It proposes a wholly revisionist understanding of geography in a pivotal age of expansion and offers a crucial historical perspective on our own global culture as it engages in a media-saturated world.

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