Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchange in the Early Modern Atlantic World

(University of Pennsylvania Press) Through 14 essays, a group of historians, art historians, and historians of science explore specific aspects of the cross-cultural history of collecting and displaying unfamiliar items, focusing on the dawn of the 16th century to the early decades of the 19th century. Bleichmar is an assistant professor in the departments of art history and history at the University of Southern California.