From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of
seeing—and a strategy for dismantling them. White supremacy is not only perpetuated by …

An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old
world and the new From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von …

AN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR• A landmark work of
narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of …

The Renaissance was also the beginning of the Age of Empires, yet the Grand Duchy of
Tuscany failed to secure overseas colonies. How did Tuscany retain its place in European …

Nel 1616, Federico Cesi, marchese di Monticelli e duca di Acquasparta, giovane rampollo di
famiglia cardinalizia e appassionato indagatore del naturale, presentava in un discorso1 …

This article considers a corpus of images created between 1650 and 1750 within Italian
Capuchin missions to Kongo and Angola. It demonstrates how these visual creations …

Little is known about when the South American species Cucurbita maxima Duchesne was
first brought to Europe, where in South America the first European specimens of this species …

This article charts the confluence and eventual overlap between two different fields: that of
world/global history and that of material culture. At a basic level, world and global historians' …

A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period
between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was …

What did early modern European audiences make of the iridescent surfaces of colonial
Mexican featherwork? While much previous scholarship relates their appeal to brightness …