{"product_id":"the-worldmakers-ayesha-ramachandran-9780226598871","title":"The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe","description":"In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, \"the world\" was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Worldmakers\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how \"the world\" itself--variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order--was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy--all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture \"the world\" on the page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ayesha Ramachandran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022659887X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226598871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Ayesha Ramachandran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946346479871,"sku":"9780226598871","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_47b0ee68-f7bb-4dc9-bb02-e82ea800a8f0.jpg?v=1681512623","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-worldmakers-ayesha-ramachandran-9780226598871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}