Early modern knowledge societies as affective economies / edited by Inger Leemans and Anne Goldgar.

Introduction: knowledge-market-affect : knowledge societies as affective economies / Inger Leemans and Anne Goldgar -- Knowing the market : Hans Fugger's affective economies / Ulinka Rublack -- Pennetrek : Sir Balthazar Gerbier (1592-1663) and the calligraphic aesthetics of commercial empire / Vera Keller -- Affective projecting : mining and inland navigation in Braunschweig-Lüneburg / Tina Asmussen -- The secret of Amsterdam : politics, alchemy and the commodification of knowledge in the seventeenth century / Martin Mulsow -- Liefhebberij : a market sensibility / Claudia Swan -- The shaping of young consumers in early modern book-objects : managing affects and markets by books for youths / Feike Dietz -- Marketing Arctic knowledge : observation, publication, and affect in the 1630s / Anne Goldgar -- Coordination in early modern Dutch book markets : 'always something new' / Claartje Rasterhoff & Kaspar Beelen -- The spectacle of dissection. early modern theatricality and anatomical frenzy / Karel Vanhaesebrouck -- Rubbed, pricked, and boiled : coins as objects of inquiry in the Dutch Republic / Sebastian Felten -- The Amsterdam Stock Exchange as affective economy / Inger Leemans.

"Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important early hubs for marketing knowledge, it analyzes knowledge economies in the dynamics of a globalizing world. Introducing the reader to different perspectives on how knowledge markets operated from both an economic and cultural perspective, this book will be of great use to students, graduates and scholars of early modern history, economic history, the history of emotions, and the history of the Low Countries"-- Provided by publisher.

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