Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century: Art, Mobility, and Change

Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Things Change
Chapter 1: “A Sort of Picture or Image of my Self”: Amoy Chin Qua’s Almost Ancestral Portrait of Joseph Collet
Chapter 2: Shooting for Freedom: Examining the Material World of Self-Emancipated Persons
Chapter 3: Something Old, Something New: Repurposing and the Production of Ephemeral Festival Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Chapter 4: Botanical Fantasy in Silk: Transformations of a Rococo Floral Design from England to China
Chapter 5: Making Marble Edible: Madame de Pompadour, Friendship, and the Multiple Lives of Porcelain
Chapter 6: The Sovereign Betel in Eighteenth-Century Bengal and Bihar
Chapter 7: Isaiah Thomas’s Stamp Acts at the Halifax Gazette: Printers and Tacit Protest in Revolutionary America
Chapter 8: Between Art and Nature: The Dauphin’s Treasure at the Royal Cabinet of Natural History in Madrid
Chapter 9: California Indian Basket Weavers, Spanish Imperialism, and Eighteenth-Century Global Networks
Chapter 10: British Prints between Caricature and Ethnography
Index
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