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  • The City of Blue and White

    Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World

    by Anne Gerritsen ...
    We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains. Many of these were made in the kilns in and surrounding Jingdezhen. Found in almost every part of the world, Jingdezhen's porcelains had a far-reaching impact on global consumption, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour

    Edited by Christian G. De Vito, Anne Gerritsen ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a ‘micro-spatial’ approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and unevennesses characterizes the global history that emerges here. We use labour as our lens in this volume ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Global Lives of Things

    The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World

    by Anne Gerritsen, Giorgio Riello ...
    The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which ‘things’, ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shaping of global connections in the period 1400-1800. By focusing on the material exchange between Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia, this volume traces the movements of objects through human networks of commerce, colonialism and consumption. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Human Tradition in Premodern China

    by Ina Asim, Anthony Deblasi, Robert W. Foster, Anne Gerritsen, Paul Rakita Goldin, Howard L. Goodman, Minna Haapanen, Andrew Meyer, Peter Ditmanson ...
    Series series The Human Tradition around the World series
    The Human Tradition in Premodern China is a collection of biographical essays revealing the variety and complexity of human experience in China from the earliest historical times to the dawn of the modern age. China is a vast country with a long history, and one which is by itself as complex as the history of Europe. This broad expanse of time and space in Chinese history has largely been ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World

    Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000

    Edited by Dr Anne Gerritsen, Burton Cleetus ...
    Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines 'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Transformative Jars

    Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures

    Edited by Anna Grasskamp, Dr Anne Gerritsen ...
    Series series Material Culture of Art and Design
    The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something. Few objects are as universal and multi-functional as a jar – regardless of whether they contain food or drink, matter or a void, life-giving medicine or the ashes of the deceased. As ubiquitous as they may seem, such containers, storage vessels and urns are, as this book demonstrates, highly significant cultural ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation

    Edited by Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, Giorgio Riello ...
    The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism.However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation

    Edited by Kristine Bruland, Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, Giorgio Riello ...
    The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism.However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Writing Material Culture History

    Edited by Dr Anne Gerritsen, Prof. Giorgio Riello ...
    Series series Writing History
    Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Global Gifts

    The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia

    Edited by Giorgio Riello, Zoltán Biedermann, Anne Gerritsen ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative World History
    This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English) ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    Body Double

    A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

    by Tess Gerritsen ...
    Narrated by Anne Heche ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Rizzoli & Isles

    Abridged

    5 hours 24 min

    Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner.Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every ... Read more

    $12.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

    by Tess Gerritsen ...
    Narrated by Anne Heche ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - Rizzoli & Isles

    Abridged

    5 hours 1 min

    **Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak.A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless thriller.**A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, ... Read more

    $13.75 USD