1st Edition
Artefacts of Encounter Materialising Emotions in Fifty Early Modern Representations
Introduction
1. Europe and the New World
2. Britain and Ireland
3. The United States of America
4. The Pacific Islands
5. Australasia
Biography
Karen O’Brien is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her notable works include Petitioning for Land: The Petitions of First Peoples of Modern British Colonies (2018) and Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships (2024).
'O’Brien offers a bold and innovative analysis of meaningful emotional encounters between Europeans and Others across five geographical regions in the early modern era. The emotional dimensions of intercultural encounters, including love, desire, grief and loss, are explored through fifty objects reflecting the anxieties and tensions of the times. Focusing on material culture opens up new understandings of the complex relations and aspirations of colonizers and the people they colonized. This is a groundbreaking must read for any scholar of imperialism, colonialism and intercultural struggle.'
Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine
