The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World (Series)

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The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World is a series centered on the exploration of the material turn in the study of culture. Volumes in the series examine the ways human beings have shaped and interpreted the material world from a broad range of scholarly perspectives and show how attention to materiality can contribute to a more precise historical understanding of specific times, places, ways, and means.

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Cultural Histories of the Material World

A collection of essays from leading figures in numerous fields exploring the ways human beings have perceived, shaped, and interpreted the material world

The Sea

Thalassography and Historiography

A unique volume that addresses how a thalassographic frame opens up new and important questions for the study of history

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

A comparative consideration of the fascination with antiquity in European and Chinese intellectual history