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Early Modern History
Seeing Across Cultures
in the Early Modern World
Edited by Dana Leibsohn, Smith College
and Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University
of California, Santa Barbara
TrANSCULTUrALISMS, 1400–1700
“Ranging from viceregal Mexico to Akbar’s India, the
authors of this timely and diverse collection practice
what theorists of early modern globalization have only
lately preached: that the world was understood to be
connected and mutually intelligible in the age of sail
and gunpowder…It is sure to provoke considerable
discussion, and likely some controversy.”
—Kris Lane, Tulane University
What were the possibilities and limits of vision in
the early modern world? Drawing upon experiences
forged in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas,
Seeing Across Cultures shows how distinctive ways
of habituating the eyes in the early modern period
had profound implications—in the realm of politics,
daily practice and the imaginary. Beyond their
interest in visual culture, the essays here expand
our understanding of transcultural encounters
and the history of vision.
Contents: Preface; Introduction: geographies of sight,
Dana Leibsohn. Part I: PersPeCtIve and mImesIs:
Perspective and its discontents or St. Lucy’s eyes,
Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato and Mia M. Mochizuki;
Perceiving blackness, envisioning power:
Chalma and Black Christs in colonial Mexico,
Jeanette Favrot Peterson; Competing and
complementary visions of the court of the
Great Mogor, Saleema Waraich. Part II: blIndness
and memory: Visual knowledge/facing blindness,
Bronwen Wilson; Blindness materialized: disease,
decay, and restoration in the Napoleonic Description
de l’Egypte (1809–1828), Liza Oliver; Gone: memory and
visuality in early modern West Africa, Mark Hinchman.
Part III: ColonIal vIsualItIes: Without a face: voicing
Moctezuma II’s image at Chapultepec Park, Mexico
City, Patrick Thomas Hajovsky; Markers: Le Moyne
de Morgues in 16th-century Florida, Todd P. Olsen;
Tourism, occupancy and visuality in North India,
ca.1750–1858, Natasha Eaton. Part Iv: seeIng aCross
tIme: Understanding visuality, Claire Farago; Index.
Includes 18 color and 64 b&w illustrations
June 2012 302 pages
Hardback 978-1-4094-1189-5 $119.95
www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409411895
The Turk and Islam in the
Western Eye, 1450–1750
Visual Imagery before Orientalism
Edited by James G. Harper, University of Oregon
TrANSCULTUrALISMS, 1400–1700
“This collection offers a rich and multifaceted history
of Islam and the Turk as seen through European eyes.
Rendering the centrality of the ‘Turk’ to European
self-fashioning over three centuries the essays
gathered here make an important contribution to an
already very lively field of scholarship in an engaging,
provocative and highly readable way.”
—Nebahat Avcioglu, Columbia University’s
Global Center in Paris, France
Includes 70 b&w illustrations
June 2011 342 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6330-0 $124.95
www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754663300
Early Modern History 2013
Western Visions of the Far
East in a Transpacific Age,
1522–1657
Edited by Christina H. Lee, Princeton University
TrANSCULTUrALISMS, 1400–1700
“Western Visions will make even seasoned historians
more deeply aware of the wealth of primary and
secondary sources…Professor Lee’s volume is
intelligently designed, the essays are savvy, original
and refreshingly free of nation-centered parochialisms.
This volume should be in the library of every serious
historian of transpacific cultural exchange.”
—Martin Powers, University of Michigan
Covering the transpacific period—in between
Magellan’s opening of the transpacific route to the
Far East and the eventual dominance of the region
by the British and the Dutch—this collection provides
a broad perspective on how Western Europe made
sense of a complex, multi-faceted and by and large
Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia.
Contents: Introduction: Europe’s encounter of Asia
in early modernity. Part 1: ImagInIng the far east
from euroPe: ‘The Indies of the West’ or, the tale
of how an imaginary geography circumnavigated
the globe, Ricardo Padrón; Imagining China in a
golden age Spanish epic, Christina H. Lee. Part 2:
dIsCoverIng the far east: The first China hands:
the forgotten Iberian origins of Sinology,
Liam Matthew Brockey; Matteo ricci on China
via Samuel Purchas: faithful re-presentation,
Nicholas Koss; representations of China and Europe
in the writings of Diego de Pantoja: accommodating
the East or privileging the West? Robert Richmond Ellis;
Women in the eyes of a Jesuit between the East
Indies, New Spain, and early modern Europe,
Haruko Natawa Ward. Part 3: sIghtIngs of the
far east In euroPe: Chinos in 16th-century Spain,
Juan Gil; Native vassals: Chinos, indigenous
identity, and legal protection in early modern Spain,
Tatiana Seijas; Travelers from afar through civic
spaces: the Tensho embassy in renaissance Italy,
Marco Musillo; The Borghese papacy’s reception
of a samurai delegation and its fresco-image
at Palazzo del Quirinale, rome, Mayu Fujikawa;
Bibliography; Index.
Includes 17 b&w illustrations
September 2012 242 pages
Hardback 978-1-4094-0850-5 $104.95
ebook PDF 978-1-4094-5236-2
ebook ePUB 978-1-4094-8368-7
www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409408505
forthComIng
The Ottoman World,
the Mediterranean and
North Africa, 1660–1760
Colin Heywood, University of Hull, UK
VArIOrUM COLLECTED STUDIES SErIES: CS1026
Colin Heywood’s second volume of collected papers
in the Variorum series brings together fourteen
studies published between 2000 and 2010. They
represent two of the main strands of his interests
during the past decade: the era of Ottoman history
dominated by the ministerial family of Köprülü;
and the maritime history of the “post-Braudelian”
Mediterranean, in the later 17th and early 18th
centuries, with a particular focus on the English
maritime and commercial presence in Algiers.
Contents: Preface. Part I: ottomanIC: asPeCts
of the köPrülü era: The Shifting Chronology of the
Chyhyryn (Çehrin) Campaign (1089/1678) according
to the Ottoman Literary Sources, and the Problem
of the Ottoman Calendar; “All for Love”?: the betrayal
of Grabusa to the Ottomans in 1691; Four Turkish
documents from the British Library; A Buyuruldu of
A.H. 1100/A.D. 1689 for the dragomans of the English
embassy at Istanbul; English self and Ottoman other
in the late 17th century: Lord Paget at the Porte,
1692–1699; An undiplomatic Anglo-Dutch dispute
at the Porte: the quarrel between Coenraad van
Heemskerck and Lord Paget at Edirne, 1693; Two
Firmans of Mustafa II on the reorganisation of the
Ottoman courier system (1108/1696) (Documents
from the Thessaloniki Cadi Sicills). Part II: between
north afrICa and CyPrus: Mediterranean Maritime
Studies: An English merchant and Consul-General
in Algiers, c.1676–1712: robert Cole and his circle;
Anglo-Maghrebi shipbroking in North Africa in the
late 17th Century: an Arabic document from Algiers
(1094/1683); ‘What’s in a name?’ Some Algerine fleet
lists (1686–1714) from British libraries and archives;
Ideology and the profit ,motive in the Algerine Corso:
the strange case of the Isabella of Kirkcaldy, 1709–14;
A frontier without archaeology?: The Ottoman
maritime frontier in the Western Mediterranean,
1660–1760; Ottoman territoriality versus maritime
usage: the Ottoman Islands and English privateering
in the wars with France 1689–1714; ‘The economics
of uncertainty’?: the French merchant community
in Cyprus at the turn of the18th Century; Fernand
Braudel and the Ottomans: the emergence of an
involvement (1928–1950): Index.
May 2013 336 pages
Hardback 978-1-4094-6482-2 $170.00
www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409464822
Paolo de Matteis
Neapolitan Painting and
Cultural History in Baroque Europe
Livio Pestilli, Trinity College, rome, Italy
“…Few art historians can match Pestilli’s knowledge
of the literary scene, the international politics, the
natural science and classical scholarship of the period.
Pestilli manages to give full attention to De Matteis’
professional aspirations, to the subject matter of his
paintings, to his pictorial technique and preparatory
drawings, while also illuminating the complex
historiographical legacy that has long obscured
the artist’s reputation.”
—Thomas Willette, University of Michigan
A long overdue re-assessment of the Neapolitan
painter Paolo de Matteis, this volume examines
the artist’s most significant works and shows how
posterity’s impression of him has been conditioned
by a biased biographical and literary tradition. More
than just a novel approach to de Matteis, however,
the book serves as a window into early eighteenthcentury
art and cultural history, not only in Naples
but in Paris, Vienna, Genoa and rome.
Includes 108 color and 112 b&w illustrations
February 2013 480 pages
Hardback 978-1-4094-4620-0 $124.95
www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409446200
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