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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 8.1 Guidon of the Sixth Independent Battery, Massachusetts Volunteer
Light Artillery, c. 1862, silk, General Artemas Ward House Museum,
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Courtesy of General Artemas Ward House
Museum 224
Figure 8.2 Sarony, Major, and Knapp after William Bauly, Our Heaven Born
Banner, 1861, chromolithograph, Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. Public domain 225
Figure 8.3 Guidon of the Sixth Independent Battery, Massachusetts Volunteer
Light Artillery, c. 1862, silk, General Artemas Ward House Museum,
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts (detail). Courtesy by General Artemas
Ward House Museum 226
Figure 9.1 The Seven Deadly Sins, attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1505,
oil on wood, 119.5 × 139.5 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid. Public
domain 251
Figure 9.2 Foldable peep box dated 1760, with a magnifying lens 12 cm in
diameter and inclined mirror, allowing for the placement of seven
layers to create an illusion of depth. Martin Engelbrecht, Augsburg
(Germany), 20.2 × 22 × 81 cm (closed). Centre national du cinéma et
de l’image animée, CNC-AP-11-1119 b. Photo courtesy by Stéphane
Dabrowski – La Cinémathèque française 258
Figure 9.3 Absorption lines (dark lines) in the solar spectrum, now known as
Fraunhofer lines. Spectroscopy by Joseph von Fraunhofer, 1814.
Courtesy of Deutsches Museum, Munich 260
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Steve F. Anderson is Professor of Digital Media in the School of Theatre, Film and
Television at the University of California, Los Angeles, working at the intersection of
media, history, technology, and culture. He is the founder/principal investigator of the
public media archive and fair use advocacy network Critical Commons. Along with Tara
McPherson, he is co-editor of the interdisciplinary electronic journal Vectors and co-
principal investigator of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, developers of the
open source electronic publishing platform Scalar. He is the author of Technologies of
History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past (Dartmouth College Press, 2011)
and Technologies of Vision: The War Between Data and Images (MIT Press, 2017).
Gil Bartholeyns is an associate professor at the University of Lille, where he is in
charge of the MA and PhD programmes in visual humanities. His recent research is
focused on domestic cultures, miraculous images from the Middle Ages to today,
and on visual experiences of the past in contemporary societies. He is the author
of Image et transgression au Moyen Age with P.O. Dittmar and V. Jolivet (PUF,
2008), and the editor of Adam et l’astragale. Essais d’anthropologie et d’histoire sur
les limites de l’humain, with P.O. Dittmar et al. (Editions de la MSH, 2009); La
performance des images, with A. Dierkens and T. Golsenne (Brussels University Press,
2010); Culture matérielles: anthologie raisonnée, with N. Govoroff and F. Joulian
(Editions de la MSH, 2011); Politiques visuelles (Les Presses du réel, 2016) as well as
Images de soi dans l’univers domestique (with M. Bourin and P-O. Dittmar, PUR, 2018).
Rob Boddice is Marie-Curie Global Fellow at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie
Universität Berlin, and at McGill University, Montreal. His research is focused on the history
of pain, sympathy, cruelty, disease, and evolution, with particular emphasis on the moral
status of human beings and other animals. His recent book publications include The Science
of Sympathy: Morality; Evolution and Victorian Civilization (Illinois University Press, 2016);
Pain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017); The History of Emotions
(Manchester University Press, 2018); and A History of Feelings (Reaktion, forthcoming).
Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Life Fellow of Emmanuel
College, University of Cambridge. He is also a fellow of the British Academy and
member of the Academia Europea. He is a specialist in the social and cultural history of
early modern Europe as well as in theoretical and methodological questions of historical
research. His most recent books include What Is the History of Knowledge? (Polity, 2015);
Secret History and Historical Consciousness from Renaissance to Romanticism (Edward
Everett Root, 2016); and Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, 1500–2000
(Brandeis University Press, 2017).
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List of Contributors
Geoffrey Cubitt is a reader in the Department of History, and Director of the Institute
for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP) at the University of York. His recent
research focuses on social memory, commemoration, museum representations of history,
and the political and cultural uses of the past in modern and contemporary societies. He
is the author of The Jesuit Myth: Conspiracy Theory and Politics in Nineteenth-Century
France (Oxford University Press, 1993) and History and Memory (Manchester University
Press, 2007) and editor of Imaging Nations (Manchester University Press, 1998); Heroic
Reputations and Exemplary Lives (with A. Warren, Manchester University Press, 2000);
and Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements (with
L. Smith, R. Wilson, and K. Fouseki, Routledge, 2011).
Lorraine Daston is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in
Berlin and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of
Chicago. She has published on a wide range of topics in the history of science, including
the history of probability and statistics, wonders in early modern science, the emergence
of the scientific fact, scientific models, objects of scientific inquiry, the moral authority
of nature, and the history of scientific objectivity. Her recent books include (with
Paul Erikson et al.) How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War
Rationality (Chicago University Press, 2014) and Histories of Scientific Observation, ed.
with Elizabeth Lunbeck (Chicago University Press, 2011).
Ewa Domanska is Professor of Human Sciences in the Department of History,
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and Visiting Associate Professor in
the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. Her teaching and research
interests include the comparative theory of the human and social sciences, the
history and theory of historiography, ecological humanities, genocide and ecocide
studies. Her more recent publications include Re-Figuring Hayden White (ed. with
Frank Ankersmit and Hans Kellner, Stanford University Press, 2009); Existential
History: A Critical Approach to Narrativism and Emancipatory Humanities (in Polish,
2012); and Necros: An Introduction to the Ontology of Human Corpses and Remains
(in Polish, 2017).
Laura Lee Downs is Professor of History at the European University Institute,
Florence, where she holds the chair in gender history, and is Directrice d’Études at
the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, where she holds a chair in the
comparative history of social management. She has published extensively on issues
of gender and labour in twentieth-century Europe, on working-class childhood, and
on the comparative history of social protection in Europe. She has also published
widely on gender analysis and historical method, most notably in her Writing Gender
History (2nd edn, Bloomsbury, 2010). Her publications also include Childhood in the
Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France,
1880–1960 (Duke University Press, 2002), and Why France? American Historians
Reflect on an Enduring Fascination, ed. with Stéphane Gerson (Cornell University
Press, 2007).
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Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of East Asian Studies at Duke
University, and previously worked as the Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National
University of Singapore where he was also director of the Asian Research Institute and
Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (2008–15). In addition to Chinese history,
he works more broadly on Asia in the twentieth century, and on historical thought and
historiography. Among his recent books are The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-
Formation (Routledge, 2009) and The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and
a Sustainable Future (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He has recently co-edited A
Companion to Global Historical Thought (John Wiley, 2014).
Ute Frevert is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and a
scientific member of the Max Planck Society. From 2003 to 2007 she was Professor of
German History at Yale University and previously taught history at the University of
Konstanz, Bielefeld University, and the Free University in Berlin. Her research interests
include the social and cultural history of the modern period, the history of emotions,
gender history, and political history. Her recent publications include Emotions in History:
Lost and Found (Central European University Press, 2011); Gefühlspolitik: Friedrich II.
als Herr über die Herzen? (Wallstein, 2012); Learning How to Feel: Children’s Literature
and the History of Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970 (Oxford University Press, 2014);
and Die Politik der Demütigung: Schauplätze von Macht und Ohnmacht (Fischer, 2017).
Ivan Gaskell is Professor of Cultural History and Museum Studies, and Head of the
Focus Project at Bard Graduate Center, New York City, having taught and curated at
Harvard University between 1991 and 2011. His areas of special interests are the material
culture of North America and Europe from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries,
and philosophy of museums and material culture. Recently he has published Tangible
Things: Making History through Objects, with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Sara J. Schechner,
Sarah Anne Carter, and photographs by Samantha S. B. van Gerbig (Oxford University
Press 2015), Sturm der Bilder: Bürger, Moral und Politik in den Niederlanden, 1515–1616,
with Martin van Gelderen (Kunst, 2016), and The Oxford Handbook of History and
Material Culture, ed. with Sarah Anne Carter (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Dominick LaCapra is Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic
Studies at Cornell University. His scholarly interests range widely in the areas of modern
European intellectual and cultural history, historiography, trauma studies, history and
literature, and critical theory. He is the author or editor of many books, including most
recently History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory (Cornell University Press,
2004); History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence (Cornell University Press, 2009)
and History, Literature, Critical Theory (Cornell University Press, 2013).
Rochona Majumdar is Associate Professor in the Departments of Cinema and Media
Studies, and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She
is a historian of modern India and her interests span the histories of Indian cinema,
gender, and marriage in colonial India, and Indian intellectual thought in the nineteenth
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and twentieth centuries. She has published Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in
Colonial Bengal (Duke University Press, 2009); Writing Postcolonial History (Bloomsbury,
2010); and From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition, ed.
with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Andrew Sartori (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Martin Mulsow is Professor of Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe and
Director of the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt. He previously worked
as professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick (2005–08), specializing in
the history of early modern Europe, with research interests located between the history
of philosophy, the history of ideas, historical anthropology, and cultural history. Among
his recent book publications are Prekäres Wissen. Eine andere Ideengeschichte der Frühen
Neuzeit (Suhrkamp, 2012); Enlightenment Underground: Radical Germany, 1680–1720
(Virginia University Press, 2015); and Decorum and Disorder: The Republic of Letters
1550–1750 (Michigan University Press, forthcoming).
Piroska Nagy is Professor of Medieval History at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Her research explores the relation between collective religious emotions, events, and
change in the Middle Ages and medieval affective anthropology, especially embodied
religious emotions, experience, and charismas. She is author of Le don des larmes au
Moyen Age: Un instrument spirituel en quête d’institution, Ve–XIIIe siècle (Albin Michel,
2000) and co-author, with Damien Boquet, of Medieval Sensibilities: A History of
Emotions in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2018). Recently she has also edited with N. Cohen-
Hanegbi the volume Pleasure in the Middle Ages (Brepols, 2018).
Bjørnar Olsen is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Tromsø – the Arctic
University of Norway. He has worked with northern and Sámi archaeology as well with
theoretical issues in archaeology. His research interests also include contemporary
archaeology, modern ruins, material memory, and thing theory. His latest books are
In Defence of Things: Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects (AltaMira Press, 2010);
Persistent Memories: Pyramiden – a Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic (with E.
Andreassen and H. Bjerck, Tapir Academic Press, 2010); Archaeology: The Discipline
of Things (with M. Shanks, T. Webmoor, and C. Witmore, California University Press,
2012); Hunters in Transition: An Outline of Early Sámi History (with L.I. Hansen, Brill,
2014); and Ruin Memories: Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent
Past, ed. with Þ. Pétursdóttir (Routledge, 2014).
Jürgen Osterhammel is Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary History at the
University of Konstanz. He works on European and Asian history from the eighteenth
century. He has also published widely on history and theory of historiography, and
is currently preparing a study of Jacob Burckhardt as a world historian. His recent
publications include The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth
Century (Princeton University Press, 2014); Die Flughöhe der Adler: Historische Essays
zur globalen Gegenwart (Beck, 2017); Decolonization: A Short History (with Jan C. Jansen,
Princeton University Press, 2017), and Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter
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