Crafting Enlightenment
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Crafting Enlightenment explores diverse networks of artisans working on four continents to examine transnational ideas related to botany, court cultures, craftsmanship, folk tales, labor, and technology. In this significant volume, the authors travel beyond Europe to explore how the Enlightenment was experienced in the Australian outback, Qing dynasty China, colonial-era Virginia, the Ottoman empire, indigenous Mexico, and northern India.

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Crafting Enlightenment explores diverse networks of artisans working on four continents to examine transnational ideas related to botany, court cultures, craftsmanship, folk tales, labor, and technology. In this significant volume, the authors travel beyond Europe to explore how the Enlightenment was experienced in the Australian outback, Qing dynasty China, colonial-era Virginia, the Ottoman empire, indigenous Mexico, and northern India.
Autorenporträt
Lauren R. Cannady, assistant clinical professor in University Honors at the University of Maryland, is a historian of early modern art and architecture with an interest in intellectual and cultural history. Her previous publications include analyses of early modern garden patterns and French aesthetic philosophy, and her current project is a book on northern European gardens as sites of knowledge production and transmission. Jennifer Ferng is Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Postgraduate Director at the University of Sydney. She received her PhD from MIT. Her second co-edited book 'Land Air Sea' will address how architecture and environment(s) in the early modern era forecasted contemporary issues related to climate change and sustainability.