Objects in motion in the early modern world

Contents

Introduction: objects in motion in the early modern world / Meredith Martin and Daniela Bleichmar. -- Exotica on the move: birds of paradise in early modern Holland / Claudia Swan. -- The Persian madonna and child: commodified gifts between diplomacy and armed struggle / Sinem Arcak Casale. -- Mirror reflections: Louis XIV, Phra Narai, and the material culture of kingship / Meredith Martin. -- An imperial Mughal tent and mobile sovereignty in eighteenth-century Jodhpur / Zirwat Chowdhury. -- History in pictures: translating the Codex Mendoza / Daniela Bleichmar. -- Chinese porcelain and Muslim port cities: mercantile materiality in coastal East Africa / Sandy Prita Meier. -- Chairs, writing tables, and chests: Indian Ocean furniture and the postures of commercial documentation in coastal Yemen, 1700-40 / Nancy Um. -- Metamorphosis at the Mughal court / Jessica Keating. -- Transporting India: the Gentil Album and Mughal manuscript culture / Chanchal Dadlani. -- Peepboxes, society, and visuality in early modern China / Kristina Kleutghen. -- From Byōbu to Biombo: the transformation of the Japanese folding screen in colonial Mexico / Sofía Sanabrais. -- Nails, necklaces and curiosities: scenes of exchange in Bougainville's Tahiti / Mary Sheriff.