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The World in a Box by Anke te Heesen (2002, TPB) Eighteenth Century Encyclopedia
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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
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- Very Good
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- ISBN
- 9780226322872
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226322874
ISBN-13
9780226322872
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2222253
Product Key Features
Book Title
World in a Box : the Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia
Number of Pages
244 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Référence / General, Dictionaries, Modern / 18th Century, Europe / Germany, Lexicography, General, German, Customs & Traditions, Europe / General
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Foreign Language Study, Art, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Juvenile Nonfiction, Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2001-052763
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
033/.1
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: "A Storehouse of the Finest Materials" BOOK 1 The Work and Its Author 2 From the Manufacture of Books to teh Pedagogical Cabinet IMAGE 3 Sources and Structure of the Picture Academy for the Young 4 Man and His Image in the Eighteenth Century BOX 5 The Box and Collecting 6 The Box and Its Uses Conclusion: The World Boxed In, Then and Now Appendix: Bibliographic Record of the Picture Academy Bibliography Index
Synopsis
This is a book about a box that contained the world. The box was the Picture Academy for the Young, a popular encyclopedia in pictures invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in eighteenth-century Germany. Children were expected to cut out the pictures from the Academy , glue them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments--the whole world filed in a box of images. As Anke te Heesen demonstrates, Stoy and his world in a box epitomized the Enlightenment concern with the creation and maintenance of an appropriate moral, intellectual, and social order. The box, and its images from nature, myth, and biblical history, were intended to teach children how to collect, store, and order knowledge. te Heesen compares the Academy with other aspects of Enlightenment material culture, such as commercial warehouses and natural history cabinets, to show how the kinds of collecting and ordering practices taught by the Academy shaped both the developing middle class in Germany and Enlightenment thought. The World in a Box, illustrated with a multitude of images of and from Stoy's Academy, offers a glimpse into a time when it was believed that knowledge could be contained and controlled.
LC Classification Number
AG27.W433H44 2002
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