Companion to the Global Renaissance

List of Illustrations viii

Notes on Contributors x

Acknowledgments xviii

Preface xix

Introduction: The Global Renaissance xxiv
Jyotsna G. Singh

Part I: Mapping the Global 1

1 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser's Mammon 3
Daniel Vitkus

2 "Travailing" Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject 22
Crystal Bartolovich

3 Islam and Tamburlaine's World-Picture 37
John Michael Archer

4 Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period 50
Chloe Houston

5 Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia 64
Stuart M. McManus

Part II: "Contact Zones" 79

6 "Apes of Imitation": Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to India 81
Nandini Das

7 Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer 95
Mihoko Suzuki

8 Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley's Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608-1611 115
Bernadette Andrea

9 Becoming Mughal, Becoming Dom Joao de Tavora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges 130
Joao Vicente Melo

10 The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns 149
Ian Smith

11 The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire 162
Andrew Hadfield

12 The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan 173
Catherine Ryu

13 Placing Iceland 184
Mary C. Fuller

14 East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553-1603 197
Gerald MacLean

15 Connected Political Imaginaries: The Sha?hna?mah and Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599-1628 210
Masoud Ghorbaninejad

Part III: "To Live by Traffic": Global Networks of Exchange 229

16 The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India 231
Jos Gommans and Jan de Hond

17 Hakluyt's Books and Hawkins' Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560-1600 249
Jyotsna G. Singh

18 Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England's "Infidel" Trade 276
Matthew Dimmock

19 Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, The Gardens of Tenochtitlan, and Spenser's Faerie Queene 290
Edward M. Test

20 "So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous": The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England 305
Stephen Deng

21 Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 319
Barbara Sebek

22 "The Whole Globe of the Earth": Almanacs and Their Readers 332
Adam Smyth

23 Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-Book Cosmopolitan 341
Ann Rosalind Jones

24 A Multinational Corporation: Labor and Ethnicity in the London East India Company 360
Richmond Barbour

25 Patterning the Tatar Girl in George Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie (1589) 377
Ladan Niayesh

Part IV: The Globe Staged 387

26 Bettrice's Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy 389
Jean E. Howard

27 The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta 402
Virginia Mason Vaughan

28 Local-Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism 415
David Morrow

29 Staging the Global in the Street: Spices, London Companies, and Thomas Middleton's The Triumphs of Honor and Industry 433
Amrita Sen

Afterword: Lyric Poetics for the Global Renaissance 447
Ayesha Ramachandran

Index 457

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• História inglesa e irlandesa
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