Making Worlds

Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world.

Angela Vanhaelen is a professor of art history at McGill University.
Wilson Bronwen :

Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Memorial Clark Library at UCLA.

"Breathtaking in scope, Making Worlds opens onto the vast web of global connectivity that comes into view when new questions are raised about the local specificity of early modern artefacts, texts, objects, images, and practices. This collection offers a geographically expansive, methodologically wide-ranging, and materially diverse assemblage of beautifully conceived interdisciplinary studies that constitute an important and timely pivot in early modern scholarship toward mundialization. There is something here for humanists of all stripes who will discover connections within and across the chapters that challenge disciplinary silos."

Michael Gaudio, Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota:

"The essays in this impressive volume focus our attention on the ‘in-between spaces’ of the global early modern, where differing vantage points came into contact and jostled against one another. By emphasizing how these spaces were negotiated through the lives of things such as folding fans, eggs, and board games, they show how early modernity, even as it resulted in the destruction of many societies, initiated a creative process of world-making."