Early Modern Americas

List of Illustrations Foreword -Malcolm Baker Introduction -Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall I. COLLECTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD Chapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections -Daniela Bleichmar Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol -Benjamin Schmidt Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism -Alain Schnapp II. COLLECTING AND THE FORMATION OF GLOBAL NETWORKS Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display -Carina L. Johnson Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque -Jose Ramon Marcaida and Juan Pimentel Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England -Robert Batchelor Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750 -Cecile Fromont Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam -Sarah Benson III. COLLECTING PEOPLE Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784 -Trevor Burnard Chapter 10. "Collecting Americans": The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA -Peter C. Mancall IV. EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS OF AMERICANA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century -Paz Cabello Carro Chapter 12. Martinez Companon and His Illustrated "Museum" -Lisa Trever and Joanne Pillsbury Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century -Pascal Riviale Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums -Megan E. O'Neil Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments