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 ByMbu 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) Index