Related Books

Royal Cabinets and Auxiliary Branches
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Rudolf Antonius Hermanus Dominique Effert
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: CNWS Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book deals with the origins of the present-day National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, and covers the period from 1816 to 1883. With the foundation of the
The Museum of Other People
Language: en
Pages: 433
Authors: Adam Kuper
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04-16 - Publisher: Pantheon

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the ori
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Hugh Dunthorne
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-01 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The 19th century laid the foundations of history, both professional and popular. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium, u
Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Anna Beerens
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-03 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Intellectual life in Edo-period Japan was sometimes harmoniously productive, sometimes destructively vicious, but never stagnant. This volume, compiled in honou
Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Susanne Leeb
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-31 - Publisher: transcript Verlag

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

While the nation-state gave rise to the advent of museums, its influence in times of transculturality and post-/decolonial studies appears to have vanished. But