{"product_id":"performing-worlds-at-the-baroque-elisa-antonietta-daniele-9781399558129","title":"Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France: Tobacco, Purple and Pearls","description":"\u003ci\u003ePerforming Worlds \u003c\/i\u003econsiders the natural resources, landscapes and stagecraft that viewers might have seen in ballets for Christine of France (1606-63), daughter of Marie de Médicis and regent of the Duchy of Savoy, at her court in Turin. It focuses on large commemorative drawings that reanimate the dancers' movements and the transformations of materials and environments--local and global--staged to promote Savoy's trading interests to European audiences. Imagine dancers from Venezuela coiling tobacco ropes as they twirl, women from Savoy spinning purple linen before miniature Alpine flax fields, and divers from Sri Lanka retrieving pearls with stones and ropes in a room turned into a majestic seascape. By focusing on three ballets and the resources performed therein - tobacco, the colour gris-de-lin and pearls - the volume probes the transformative potential of these performances: how they transmuted environments into resources and desirable goods, and unruly historical dynamics into ideal landscapes and graceful dance steps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elisa Antonietta Daniele\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399558129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399558129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Elisa Antonietta Daniele","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48175776956671,"sku":"9781399558129","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e0311f0-7172-4d70-8bd1-75fec3d74790.jpg?v=1771335837","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/performing-worlds-at-the-baroque-elisa-antonietta-daniele-9781399558129","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}