Global Gifts

Zoltán Biedermann, University College LondonZoltán Biedermann is Associate Professor and Head of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at University College London.Anne Gerritsen, University of WarwickAnne Gerritsen is Professor of History and directs the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick.Giorgio Riello, University of WarwickGiorgio Riello is Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick.

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Zoltán Biedermann (ed.)

页数:314

出版时间:2017-12-28

价格:GBP 75.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781108415507

丛书系列:Studies in Comparative World History

图书标签:物质文化全球史人类学MaterialCultureEarlyModernEurope中国研究MaterialEarlyModernChina

This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English) and Asian empires (including Ottoman, Persian, Mughal, Sri Lankan, Chinese, and Japanese cases). They examine how those exchanges influenced the global production and circulation of art and material culture, and explore the types of gifts exchanged, the chosen materials, and the manner of their presentation. Global Gifts establishes new parameters for the study of the material and aesthetic culture of Eurasian relations before 1800, exploring the meaning of artistic objects in global diplomacy and the existence of economic and aesthetic values mutually intelligible across cultural boundaries.