Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia (Studies in Comparative World History)

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 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. Edited By Zoltán Biedermann, University College London, Anne Gerritson, University Of Warwick, Giorgio Riello, University Of Warwick. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 01.0_pp_i_ii_Global_Gifts 02.0_pp_iii_iv_Studies_in_Comparative_World_History 03.0_pp_v_v_Global_Gifts 04.0_pp_vi_vi_Copyright_page 05.0_pp_vii_viii_Contents 06.0_pp_ix_x_Figures 07.0_pp_xi_xii_Tables 08.0_pp_xiii_xiv_Contributors 09.0_pp_xv_xvi_Preface 10.0_pp_1_33_Introduction 11.0_pp_34_55_Portraits_Turbans_and_Cuirasses 12.0_pp_56_87_Material_Diplomacy 13.0_pp_88_118_Diplomatic_Ivories 14.0_pp_119_149_Objects_of_Prestige_and_Spoils_of_War 15.0_pp_150_170_The_Diplomatic_Agency_of_Art_between_Goa_and_Persia 16.0_pp_171_197_Dutch_Diplomacy_and_Trade_in_Rariteyten 17.0_pp_198_216_Gifts_for_the_Shogun 18.0_pp_217_234_From_His_Holiness_to_the_King_of_China 19.0_pp_235_265_With_Great_Pomp_and_Magnificence 20.0_pp_266_290_Coercion_and_the_Gift 21.0_pp_291_302_Index 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. Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy