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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Global Renaissance: Jyotsna Singh (Michigan StateUniversity)
Part I: Mapping the Global:
1. The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser’s Mammon:Daniel Vitkus (Florida State University)
2. “Travailing” Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject: Crystal Bartolovich (Syracuse University)
3. Islam and Tamburlaine’s World-picture: John Michael Archer (New York University)
4. Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period: Chloë Houston (University of Reading)
Part II: “Contact Zones”:
5. The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel before Empire: Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex)
6. “Apes of Imitation”: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to India: Nandini Das (University of Liverpool)
7. A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company: Richmond Barbour (Oregon State University)
8. Where was Iceland in 1600?: Mary C. Fuller (MIT)
9. East by North-east: The English among the Russians, 1553–1603: Gerald MacLean (University of Exeter)
10. The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company’s Failure in Japan: Catherine Ryu (Michigan State University)
11. The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns: Ian Smith (University of Reading)
Part III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects:
12. Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s Infidel Trade: Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex)
13. Cassio, Cash, and the “Infidel 0”: Arithmetic, Double-entry Book-keeping, and Othello’s Unfaithful Accounts: Patricia Parker (Stanford University)
14. Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, the Gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser’s Faerie Queene: Edward M. Test (Boise State University)
15. “So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous”: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England: Stephen Deng (Michigan State University)
16. Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Barbara Sebek (Colorado State University)
17. “The Whole Globe of the Earth”: Almanacs and Their Readers: Adam Smyth (University of Reading)
18. Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-book Cosmopolitan: Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College)
Part IV: The Globe Staged:
19. Bettrice’s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy: Jean E. Howard (Columbia University)
20. The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta: Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)
21. Local/Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism: David Morrow (College of St. Rose)
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