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In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She trace

Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600

Eighteenth-century consumers of the Qing and Ottoman empires had access to an increasingly diverse array of goods, from home furnishings to fashionable clothes