Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800

Informationen zum Autor Peter N. Miller is Dean and Professor at the Bard Graduate Center. He is the Series Editor for Cultural Histories of the Material World. Francois Louis is Associate Professor at the Bard Graduate Center. Klappentext This first volume in this groundbreaking new series is a comparative study of practices of historical research in early modern Europe and China. In recent decades! as the history of scholarship has burgeoned into a respected field of academic study! antiquarianism has emerged as an important precursor of the modern historical sciences and their associated museum culture. Zusammenfassung A comparative consideration of the fascination with antiquity in European and Chinese intellectual history

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• Authors: Francois Louis, Peter N. Miller, Peter N. Louis Miller, Peter N./ Louis Miller
• Assisted by: Francois Louis (Editor), Peter N. Miller (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2012
• EAN: 9780472118182
• ISBN: 978-0-472-11818-2
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Bard Graduate Center Cultural; The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous