 | Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World Subjects: Material culture -- Collectors and collecting; Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting; Preservation of materials; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- History; Commerce -- History -- Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic Ocean Region -- Exchange --; Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, Europe, and South America, each of the fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures explores a specific aspect of the history of collecting, collections, or collectors in the early modern period. Daniela Bleichmar is Associate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Southern California. Peter C. Mancall is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. |
