Abstract:List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvi Introduction: The Global Renaissance 1 Jyotsna G. Singh Part I: Mapping the Global 29 1 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, ...List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvi Introduction: The Global Renaissance 1 Jyotsna G. Singh Part I: Mapping the Global 29 1 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser s Mammon 31 Daniel Vitkus 2 Travailing Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject 50 Crystal Bartolovich 3 Islam and Tamburlaine s World-picture 67 John Michael Archer 4 Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period 82 Chloe Houston Part II: Contact Zones 99 5 The Benefi ts of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel before Empire 101 Andrew Hadfield 6 Apes of Imitation : Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe s Embassy to India 114 Nandini Das 7 A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company 129 Richmond Barbour 8 Where was Iceland in 1600? 149 Mary C. Fuller 9 East by North-east: The English among the Russians, 1553 1603 163 Gerald MacLean 10 The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company s Failure in Japan 178 Catherine Ryu 11 The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns 190 Ian Smith Part III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects 205 12 Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England s Infi del Trade 207 Matthew Dimmock 13 Cassio, Cash, and the Infidel 0 : Arithmetic, Double-entry Bookkeeping, and Othello s Unfaithful Accounts 223 Patricia Parker 14 Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, the Gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser s Faerie Queene 242 Edward M. Test 15 So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous : The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England 262 Stephen Deng 16 Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 279 Barbara Sebek 17 The Whole Globe of the Earth : Almanacs and Their Readers 294 Adam Smyth 18 Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-book Cosmopolitan 305 Ann Rosalind Jones Part IV: The Globe Staged 323 19 Bettrice s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy 325 Jean E. Howard 20 The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta 340 Virginia Mason Vaughan 21 Local/Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism 355 David Morrow Index 378Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-04-17
Language: en
Type: book
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