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Book SynopsisThis exciting new Companion explores the interactions between Europe and other peoples of both the New and Old worlds during the English Renaissance, and their effect on the literature, culture, art, and history of the period.
Table of ContentsList 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
Chloë 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 378
