東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Ma...

Carlton, Genevieve.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy./
Author:	Carlton, Genevieve.
Description:	273 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-08, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-08A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3456533
ISBN:	9781124660950

Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy.
Carlton, Genevieve.

Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy. - 273 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-08, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2011.

This study asks why sixteenth-century Italians chose to buy maps in the first decades after the cartographic revolution and concludes that maps became a central tool in the effort to impress one's neighbors. Just as family portraits were commissioned to emphasize desirable characteristics, maps became a short-hand way to show one's connection to a place or knowledge about the world. In this way, maps became a new form of cultural capital in the sixteenth century----owners consciously deployed maps to construct their identity through the selection and display of cartographic materials. These maps were flexible objects that could promote a family's power, a military career, trade connections, or show that one was an educated, modern and worldly person.

ISBN: 9781124660950Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy.
LDR:03115nam 2200325 4500 001 1404640
005 20111130124108.5
008 130515s2011 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781124660950
035 $a (UMI)AAI3456533
035 $a AAI3456533
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Carlton, Genevieve. $3 1683975
245 1 0 $a Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy.
300 $a 273 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-08, Section: A, page: .
500 $a Adviser: Edward Muir.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2011.
520 $a This study asks why sixteenth-century Italians chose to buy maps in the first decades after the cartographic revolution and concludes that maps became a central tool in the effort to impress one's neighbors. Just as family portraits were commissioned to emphasize desirable characteristics, maps became a short-hand way to show one's connection to a place or knowledge about the world. In this way, maps became a new form of cultural capital in the sixteenth century----owners consciously deployed maps to construct their identity through the selection and display of cartographic materials. These maps were flexible objects that could promote a family's power, a military career, trade connections, or show that one was an educated, modern and worldly person.
520 $a "Worldly Consumers" examines the ways both producers and consumers negotiated the balance between the symbolic meaning attached to maps and the growing expectation that cartographic works accurately reflect the world. I challenge the widely-held perception that early modern maps were most important as tools of state imperialism by showing how individuals purchased and displayed maps as a deliberate act of self-fashioning, revealing that maps were valued not only for their geographical content but also for their ability to shape the public persona of their owner. These maps were not intended to be used for navigation, travel, or to feed imperial ambitions---rather, they were shown in the homes of worldly consumers who used maps to claim their place in a new culture of cosmopolitanism.
520 $a My examination of the expanding market for maps as consumer goods utilizes a variety of sources, including maps, epigrams, dedications, household inventories, catalogues and advice manuals in order to reconstruct the value of sixteenth-century maps to their buyers. This method demonstrates how Renaissance Italians of all classes used material goods to craft a public identity, providing a unique perspective on individuals who often go unnoticed in history, like the Venetian woolworker Andrea Baretta who decorated his home with maps of Asia, Africa, Europe and America.
590 $a School code: 0163.
650 4 $a History, European. $3 1018076
650 4 $a History of Science. $3 896972
690 $a 0335
690 $a 0585
710 2 $a Northwestern University. $b History. $3 1020284
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 72-08A.
790 1 0 $a Muir, Edward, $e advisor
790 1 0 $a Alder, Ken $e committee member
790 1 0 $a Grafe, Regina $e committee member
790 $a 0163
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2011
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3456533