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Description:The essays in this volume focus primarily on 16th and 17th century Europe and are broadly interdisciplinary. They answer questions such as: what kinds of cultural work do numbers do?; What roles does calculation play in colonial, imperial, and/or national projects or ideologies?; What are the relationships between aesthetic practices and bureaucratic modes of calculation (such as accounting, census taking, and demography)?; What kinds of agencies and subjectivities do numbers and numbering enable and foreclose?; How do different kinds of economic strategies (eg exchange, gift, capital, debt, interest) affect representational strategies and vice versa?; What cultural dynamics inform spatial measurements, such as cartagraphy?; and what do analyses of counting practices tell us about the production of knowledge more generally?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (Early Modern Cultural Studies). To get started finding Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (Early Modern Cultural Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The essays in this volume focus primarily on 16th and 17th century Europe and are broadly interdisciplinary. They answer questions such as: what kinds of cultural work do numbers do?; What roles does calculation play in colonial, imperial, and/or national projects or ideologies?; What are the relationships between aesthetic practices and bureaucratic modes of calculation (such as accounting, census taking, and demography)?; What kinds of agencies and subjectivities do numbers and numbering enable and foreclose?; How do different kinds of economic strategies (eg exchange, gift, capital, debt, interest) affect representational strategies and vice versa?; What cultural dynamics inform spatial measurements, such as cartagraphy?; and what do analyses of counting practices tell us about the production of knowledge more generally?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (Early Modern Cultural Studies). To get started finding Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe (Early Modern Cultural Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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