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.
Author(s): Giorgio Riello; Anne Gerritsen; Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
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
