A Companion to the Global Renaissance : Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500-1700.

Intro -- A Companion to the Global Renaissance -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: The Global Renaissance -- Part I: Mapping the Global -- 1. The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser's Mammon -- 2. "Travailing" Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject -- 3. Islam and Tamburlaine's World-Picture -- 4. Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period -- 5. Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia -- Part II: "Contact Zones" -- 6. "Apes of Imitation": Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to India -- 7. Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer -- 8. Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley's Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608-1611 -- 9. Becoming Mughal, Becoming Dom João de Távora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges -- 10. The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns -- 11. The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire -- 12. The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan -- 13. Placing Iceland -- 14. East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553-1603 -- 15. Connected Political Imaginaries: The Shaˉhnaˉmah and Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599-1628 -- Part III: "To Live by Traffic": Global Networks of Exchange -- 16. The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India -- 17. Hakluyt's Books and Hawkins' Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560-1600.

18. Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England's "Infidel" Trade -- 19. Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, The Gardens of Tenochtitlan, and Spenser's Faerie Queene -- 20. "So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous": The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England -- 21. Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 22. "The Whole Globe of the Earth": Almanacs and Their Readers -- 23. Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-Book Cosmopolitan -- 24. A Multinational Corporation: Labor and Ethnicity in the London East India Company -- 25. Patterning the Tatar Girl in George Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie (1589) -- Part IV: The Globe Staged -- 26. Bettrice's Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy -- 27. The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta -- 28. Local-Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism -- 29. Staging the Global in the Street: Spices, London Companies, and Thomas Middleton's The Triumphs of Honor and Industry -- Afterword: Lyric Poetics for the Global Renaissance -- Index -- EULA.

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