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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Biedermann, Zoltán, editor.
Gerritsen, Anne, editor.
Riello, Giorgio, editor.
Cambridge University Press.
Series:
Studies in comparative world history
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Diplomatic gifts--Europe--History.
Diplomatic gifts.
Diplomatic gifts--Asia--History.
Material culture--Political aspects--Europe--History.
Material culture.
Material culture--Political aspects--Asia--History.
World politics--To 1900.
World politics.
History.
Asia.
Europe.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
System Details:
text file
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781108233880
1108233880
Publisher Number:
40027834334
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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