Global Gifts - The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Sommario

Introduction: global gifts and the material culture of diplomacy in early modern Eurasia Zoltán Biedermann, Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello; 1. Portraits, turbans and cuirasses: material exchange between Mantua and the Ottomans at the end of the fifteenth century Antonia Gatward Cevizli; 2. A silken diplomacy: Venetian luxury gifts for the Ottoman Empire in the late Renaissance Luca Molà; 3. Diplomatic viories: Sri Lankan caskets and the Portuguese-Asian exchange in the sixteenth century Zoltán Biedermann; 4. Objects of prestige and spoils of war: Ottoman objects in the Habsburg networks of gift giving in the sixteenth century Barbara Karl; 5. The diplomatic agency of art between Goa and Persia: Archbishop Friar Aleixo de Meneses and Shah 'Abb¿s I in the early seventeenth century Carla Alferes Pinto; 6. Dutch diplomacy and trade in Rariteyten: episodes in the history of material culture of the Dutch Republic Claudia Swan; 7. Gifts for the shogun: the Dutch East India Company, global networks and Tokugawa Japan Adam Clulow; 8. 'From his Holiness to the King of China': gifts, diplomacy and Jesuit evangelization Mary Laven; 9. 'With great pomp and magnificence': royal gifts and the embassies between Siam and France in the late seventeenth century Giorgio Riello; 10. Coercion and the gift: art, jewels and the body in British diplomacy in Colonial India Natasha Eaton.

Info autore

Zoltán Biedermann is Associate Professor and Head of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at University College London.Anne Gerritsen is Professor of History and directs the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick.Giorgio Riello is Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick.

Riassunto

Global Gifts examines the ways in which material goods contributed to the growth of political exchanges between Asia, Africa and Europe, and specifically how those exchanges influenced the global production and circulation of art and material culture before 1800.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Zoltan (University College London) Ger Biedermann, Zoltan Gerritsen Biedermann, EDITED BY ZOLT N BI
• Con la collaborazione di: Zoltan Biedermann (Editore), Zoltán Biedermann (Editore), Anne Gerritsen (Editore), Anne (University College London) Gerritsen (Editore), Gerritsen Anne (Editore), Giorgio Riello (Editore), Giorgio (University of Warwick UK) Riello (Editore), Riello Giorgio (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108401500
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40150-0
• Pagine: 317
• Serie: Studies in Comparative World History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Antichità; Europe, Asia, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Material Culture, Diplomacy, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599