Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World (Paperback)

Notes on Contributors 

Introduction: Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World (Meredith Martin and Daniela Bleichmar) 

1. Exotica on the Move: Birds of Paradise in Early Modern Holland (Claudia Swan)

2.The Persian Madonna and Child: Commodified Gifts between Diplomacy and Armed Struggle (Sinem Arcak Casale)

3. Mirror Reflections: Louis XIV, Phra Narai, and the Material Culture of Kingship (Meredith Martin)

4. An Imperial Mughal Tent and Mobile Sovereignty in Eighteenth-Century Jodhpur (Zirwat Chowdhury)

5. History in Pictures: Translating the Codex Mendoza (Daniela Bleichmar)

6. Chinese Porcelain and Muslim Port Cities: Mercantile Materiality in Coastal East Africa (Sandy Prita Meier) 

7. Chairs, Writing Tables, and Chests: Indian Ocean Furniture and the Postures of Commercial Documentation in Coastal Yemen, 1700–40 (Nancy Um) 

8. Metamorphosis at the Mughal Court (Jessica Keating)

9.Transporting India: The Gentil Album and Mughal Manuscript Culture (Chanchal Dadlani)

10. Peepboxes, Society, and Visuality in Early Modern China (Kristina Kleutghen)

11. From Byōbu to Biombo: The Transformation of the Japanese Folding Screen in Colonial Mexico (Sofía Sanabrais)

12. Nails, Necklaces and Curiosities: Scenes of Exchange in Bougainville's Tahiti (Mary Sheriff)