Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
by Jardine, Lisa
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385476841
- ISBN 13
- 9780385476843
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Doubleday; Nan A. Talese, 1996. xxvi, 470 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. A few scattered pencil marks. First Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. "The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship, and the emergence of some of the greatest artists and thinkers the world has known: this is the traditional view of the Renaissance. In this lively, provocative, and wholly absorbing new book, Lisa Jardine offers a radical new interpretation, arguing that the creation of culture during the Renaissance was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth." - Publisher. CONTENTS: 1. Conditions for Change: Goods in Profusion; 2. The Price of Magnificence; 3. The Triumph of the Book; 4. Learning to Be Civilized; 5. New Expertise for Sale; 6. A Culture of Commodities; 7. Mapping the Heavens; 8. Conspicuous Consumption.. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 113485
- Title
- Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
- Author
- Jardine, Lisa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0385476841
- ISBN 13
- 9780385476843
- Publisher
- Doubleday; Nan A. Talese
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / Italian; European / 4. Renaissance; European / German, Austrian & Swiss;
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