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This review discusses the significance of small objects in cultural, political, and scientific changes in Europe.
A review of Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature , edited by Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Fowkes Tobin, a collection of seventeen essays focusing on the cultural history and impact of small objects, or things, and their outsized but often overlooked significance in the personal, political, economic, cultural, and scientific shifts occurring in Europe during the eighteenth century.
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