Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Preface
Introduction (Zoltán Biedermann, Anne Gerritsen, 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)
Index
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