Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson
 
Part One: Material Flows
 
2. The Early Modern Fold: Pleated Media in Japan’s Encounter with Europe
Kristopher Kersey 
 
3. From Textile to Text: Cloth, Slavery, and the Archive in the Dutch Atlantic
Carrie Anderson
 
4. Drawing Worlds in Smoke, Powder, and Fumes: Bodies and Trifles in Il Tabacco, the Courtly Ballet Staged in Turin (1650)
Elisa Antonietta Daniele
 
5. From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art and Ambivalence in Early Modern Japan
Benjamin Schmidt
 
6. Eggs, Cheese, and (Francis) Bacon
Helen Smith
 
Part Two: In-Between Spaces
 
7. The Cabinet and the World: Non-European Objects in Early Modern European Collections
Daniela Bleichmar
 
8. Le Jeu du monde: Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern France
Ting Chang 
 
9. The World Contained in an Imperial Ottoman Album
Emine Fetvaci
 
10. World Building, the Folger Folios, and the University of British Columbia
Patricia Badir 
 
Part Three: Other Worlds

11. Ascetic Ecology: Landscape of a Desert Saint
Lyle Massey
 
12. The End of All: Worldliness, Piety, and the Social Life of Maps in the Post-Reformation English Household
Gavin Hollis
 
13. Enlightenment Cosmology: A Medialogical Interpretation
J.B. Shank
 
14. Masked Alliances: Global Politics and Economy in the Art and Performance Rituals of Mexico’s Indigenous People
John M.D. Pohl and Danny Zborover
 
15. Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch Republic
Thijs Weststeijn

Contributors
Index

About the Author

Angela Vanhaelen is a professor of art history at McGill University.

Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Memorial Clark Library at UCLA.

Reviews

"The essays in this impressive volume focus our attention on the 'in-between spaces' of the global early modern, where differing vantage points came into contact and jostled against one another. By emphasizing how these spaces were negotiated through the lives of things such as folding fans, eggs, and board games, they show how early modernity, even as it resulted in the destruction of many societies, initiated a creative process of world-making."--Michael Gaudio, Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota
"Breathtaking in scope, Making Worlds opens onto the vast web of global connectivity that comes into view when new questions are raised about the local specificity of early modern artefacts, texts, objects, images, and practices. This collection offers a geographically expansive, methodologically wide-ranging, and materially diverse assemblage of beautifully conceived interdisciplinary studies that constitute an important and timely pivot in early modern scholarship toward mundialization. There is something here for humanists of all stripes who will discover connections within and across the chapters that challenge disciplinary silos." --Marjorie Rubright, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst