The Librarian's Atlas
€ 38,90
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780226854472 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Seth Kimmel |
| Editora | The University of Chicago Press |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 272 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,406 |
| Data de Publicação | 05/09/2026 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 36,70 |
| Imposto | € 2,20 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 38,90 |
| Disponibilidade | 2 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge—now in paperback. Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became a projection of the library. In The Librarian’s Atlas, Seth Kimmel offers a sweeping material history of how the desire to catalog books coincided in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the aspiration to control territory. Through a careful study of library culture in Spain and Morocco—close readings of catalogs, marginalia, indexes, commentaries, and maps—Kimmel reveals how the booklover’s dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself.