{"product_id":"9780226854472","title":"Librarian's Atlas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge—now in paperback. Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became a projection of the library. In The Librarian’s Atlas, Seth Kimmel offers a sweeping material history of how the desire to catalog books coincided in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the aspiration to control territory. Through a careful study of library culture in Spain and Morocco—close readings of catalogs, marginalia, indexes, commentaries, and maps—Kimmel reveals how the booklover’s dream of a comprehensive and well-organized library shaped an expanded sense of the world itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seth Kimmel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53715944145214,"sku":"9780226854472","price":1099.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/files\/9780226854472.jpg?v=1781014511","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780226854472","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}