{"product_id":"transcultural-things-and-the-spectre-tomasz-grusiecki-9781526194725","title":"Transcultural Things and the Spectre of Orientalism in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranscultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland-Lithuania's roots in the supposedly 'Oriental' land of Sarmatia, portrayals of fashions that purport to trace Polish culture back to a distant and revered past, Ottomanesque costumes worn by Polish ambassadors and carpets labelled as Polish despite their foreign provenance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese examples of invented tradition borrowed from abroad played a significant role in narrating and visualising the cultural landscape of Polish-Lithuanian elites. But while modern scholarship defines these objects as exemplars of national heritage, early modern beholders treated them with more flexibility, seeing no contradiction in framing material things as local cultural forms while simultaneously acknowledging their foreign derivation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book reveals how artefacts began to signify as vernacular idioms in the first place, often through obscuring their non-local origin and tainting subsequent discussions of the imagined purity of national culture as a result.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tomasz Grusiecki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526194724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526194725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Tomasz Grusiecki","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47203227271423,"sku":"9781526194725","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cef4f961-50b9-46fa-8943-7852770ff414.jpg?v=1756834726","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transcultural-things-and-the-spectre-tomasz-grusiecki-9781526194725","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}