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Benjamin Schmidt is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington in Seattle. He works at the disciplinary crossroads of cultural history, visual material studies, and the history of science, focusing primarily on Europe's engagement with the world during the so-called age of globalism. His published works cover a range of early modern topics, including 'Innocence Abroad: Dutch Imagination of the New World,' which won the Renaissance Society of America's Gordan Prize and the Holland Society's Hendricks Prize. Other notable publications include 'Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, Texts' (with Pamela Smith), 'Discovery of Guiana' by Sir Walter Ralegh, and 'Going Dutch: Dutch Presence in America, 1609–2009' (with Annette Stott and Joyce Goodfriend). His recent book, 'Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World,' investigates the evolution of European forms of exoticism and their representations of the non-European world in the context of early global encounters. Schmidt has also explored the impact of climate change on cultural history in his current projects, focusing on global matters and entangled things in the making of modernity.
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