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"""Drawing on a dazzling range of visual evidence, Oliver provides a pathbreaking account of how the commerce in textiles shaped the visual, cultural, and political histories of France and India. Deeply researched, theoretically informed, and compellingly argued, Oliver's transregional analysis challenges existing art historical models of cultural encounter and revolutionizes our understanding of eighteenth-century visual culture in both France and India."" - Amy Freund, Southern Methodist University ""Paying equal attention to South Indian and French actors and addressing a remarkably wide range of objects and practices--from painted textiles to botanical illustrations to gift giving and iconoclasm--Oliver brings vividly into view the complex entanglements of things and people in French India in a period of expanding long-distance trade and growing imperial ambition."" - Kristel Smentek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"

Drawing on a dazzling range of visual evidence, Oliver provides a pathbreaking account of how the commerce in textiles shaped the visual, cultural, and political histories of France and India. Deeply researched, theoretically informed, and compellingly argued, Oliver's transregional analysis challenges existing art historical models of cultural encounter and revolutionizes our understanding of eighteenth-century visual culture in both France and India. - Amy Freund, Southern Methodist University Paying equal attention to South Indian and French actors and addressing a remarkably wide range of objects and practices--from painted textiles to botanical illustrations to gift giving and iconoclasm--Oliver brings vividly into view the complex entanglements of things and people in French India in a period of expanding long-distance trade and growing imperial ambition. - Kristel Smentek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Drawing on a dazzling range of visual evidence, Oliver provides a pathbreaking account of how the commerce in textiles shaped the visual, cultural, and political histories of France and India. Deeply researched, theoretically informed, and compellingly argued, Oliver's transregional analysis challenges existing art historical models of cultural encounter and revolutionizes our understanding of eighteenth-century visual culture in both France and India. - Amy Freund, Southern Methodist University[-][-] Paying equal attention to South Indian and French actors and addressing a remarkably wide range of objects and practices--from painted textiles to botanical illustrations to gift giving and iconoclasm--Oliver brings vividly into view the complex entanglements of things and people in French India in a period of expanding long-distance trade and growing imperial ambition. - Kristel Smentek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology[-]

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Liza Oliver is the Diana Chapman Walsh Assistant Professor in Art History and South Asia Studies at Wellesley College.

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