Global gifts : the material culture of diplomacy in early modern Eurasia /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Biedermann, Zoltán (Editor), Gerritsen, Anne (Editor), Riello, Giorgio (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Studies in comparative world history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Global gifts and the material culture of diplomacy in early modern Eurasia / Zoltán Biedermann, Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello
  • Portraits, turbans and cuirasses : material exchange between Mantua and the Ottomans at the end of the fifteenth century / Antonia Gatward Cevizli
  • A silken diplomacy : Venetian luxury gifts for the Ottoman Empire in the late Renaissance / Luca Molà
  • Diplomatic ivories : Sri Lankan caskets and the Portuguese-Asian exchange in the sixteenth century / Zoltán Biedermann
  • Objects of prestige and spoils of war : Ottoman objects in the Habsburg networks of gift giving in the sixteenth century / Barbara Karl
  • The diplomatic agency of art between Goa and Persia : Archbishop Friar Aleixo de Meneses and Shah 'Abbās I in the early seventeenth century / Carla Alferes Pinto
  • Dutch diplomacy and trade in Rariteyten : episodes in the history of material culture of the Dutch Republic / Claudia Swan
  • Gifts for the shogun : the Dutch East India Company, global networks and Tokugawa Japan / Adam Clulow
  • "From his Holiness to the King of China" : gifts, diplomacy and Jesuit evangelization / Mary Laven
  • "With great pomp and magnificence" : royal gifts and the embassies between Siam and France in the late seventeenth century / Giorgio Riello
  • Coercion and the gift : art, jewels and the body in British diplomacy in colonial India / Natasha Eaton.