Research Catalog

Title

Global gifts : the material culture of diplomacy in early modern Eurasia / edited by Zoltán Biedermann, University College London ; Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick ; Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick.

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Additional Authors

• Biedermann, Zoltán
• Gerritsen, Anne
• Riello, Giorgio

Description

xvi, 301 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Studies in comparative world history

Uniform Title

Studies in comparative world history.

Subjects

• Material culture > Political aspects > Europe > History
• Material culture > Political aspects > Asia > History
• Diplomatic gifts > Asia > History
• World politics > To 1900
• Diplomatic gifts > Europe > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 18-3834

ISBN

• 9781108415507
• 1108415504
• 9781108401500
• 1108401503

LCCN

2017041311

OCLC

1012672876

Title

Global gifts : the material culture of diplomacy in early modern Eurasia / edited by Zoltán Biedermann, University College London ; Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick ; Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in comparative world history

Studies in comparative world history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Biedermann, Zoltán, editor.

Gerritsen, Anne, editor.

Riello, Giorgio, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-3834