Early modern knowledge societies as affective economies / edited by Inger Leemans and Anne Goldgar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leemans, Inger, editor.

Goldgar, Anne, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge economy--Europe--History.

Knowledge economy.

Economics--Europe--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

Emotions--Economic aspects--Europe.

Emotions.

Europe--Economic conditions--17th century.

Europe.

Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.

Economic history.

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Emotions--Economic aspects.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important early hubs for marketing knowledge, it analyzes knowledge economies in the dynamics of a globalizing world. Introducing the reader to different perspectives on how knowledge markets operated from both an economic and cultural perspective, this book will be of great use to students, graduates and scholars of early modern history, economic history, the history of emotions, and the history of the Low Countries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: knowledge

market

affect: knowledge societies as affective economies / Anne Goldgar

pt. I Wish economies and affective communities

2. Knowing the market: Hans Fugger's affective economies / Ulinka Rublack

3. Pennetrek: Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592

1663) and the calligraphic aesthetics of commercial empire / Vera Keller

4. Affective projecting: mining and inland navigation in Braunschweig-Liineburg / Tina Asmussen

5. The secret of Amsterdam: politics, alchemy and the commodification of knowledge in the 17th century / Martin Mulsow

6. Liefhebberij: a market sensibility / Claudia Swan

7. The shaping of young consumers in early modern book-objects: managing affects and markets by books for youths / Feike Dietz

pt. II Marketing and managing knowledge and affects

8. Marketing arctic knowledge: observation, publication, and affect in the 1630s / Anne Qoldgar

9. Coordination in early modern Dutch book markets: `always something new' / Kaspar Beelen

10. The spectacle of dissection: early modern theatricality and anatomical frenzy / Karel Vanhaesebrouck

11. Rubbed, pricked, and boiled: coins as objects of inquiry in the Dutch Republic / Sebastian Felten

12. The Amsterdam stock exchange as affective economy / Inger Leemans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Early modern knowledge societies as affective economies

ISBN:

9780367219949

0367219948

9780367219963

0367219964

OCLC:

1201692644

Publisher Number:

99989755028