Global gifts: the material culture of diplomacy in early modern Eurasia

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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 -- Material 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.