Global Gifts (eBook, PDF)

The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia
Redaktion: Biedermann, Zoltan

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English) and Asian empires (including Ottoman, Persian, Mughal, Sri Lankan, Chinese, and Japanese cases). They examine how those exchanges influenced the global production and circulation of art and material culture, and explore the types of gifts exchanged, the chosen materials, and the manner of their presentation. Global Gifts establishes new parameters for the study of the material and aesthetic culture of Eurasian relations before 1800, exploring the meaning of artistic objects in global diplomacy and the existence of economic and aesthetic values mutually intelligible across cultural boundaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108246460
• Artikelnr.: 50417661

Inhaltsangabe

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.