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The present volume aims at outlining a new field of historical research: the material culture of diplomacy in early modern and modern times. The chapters study a complex web of relations between artefacts, human beings, and spaces in intercultural diplomacy in different regions of the world to uncover the political, social, legal and economic significance in the ways in which diplomatic actors brought artifacts into play during negotiations.
Volume Editor: Harriet Rudolph, Gregor M. Metzig
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Contents
Harriet RudolphEntangled Objects and Hybrid Practices? Material Culture as a New Approach to the History of Diplomacy
Gregor M. MetzigCorals, Brass and Firearms. Material Commodities in Cultural Interactions between Edo and Portuguese in Benin around 1500
Michael TalbotGifts of Time: Watches and Clocks in Ottoman-British Diplomacy, 1693–1803
Volker DepkatPeace Medal Diplomacy in Indian-White Relations in Nineteenth-Century North America
Frieder GüntherSociety of the “Economic Miracle” and the Non-European World. Material Culture of State Visits during the Presidency of Theodor Heuss
Simone DerixAssembling Things Right. The Material Dimensions of West German Diplomacy (1950s to 1970s)
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Matthew G. StanardThe colonial past is never dead. It’s not even past: Histories of Empire, Decolonization, and European Cultures after 1945
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