Objects in Conflict

1. Introduction I. Where are the Objects?: Tracing the Material Culture of Intercultural Diplomacy in European Collections 2. Exotic Gifts â" On the Lobbying of Indigenous Elites to Influence European Colonial Policy: Selected Examples from Around the World in European Museums 3. Crafting Diplomacy: Extraordinary Embassies and the Programmatic Display of French Luxury Goods, 1662â"1789 4. Immaterial Diplomacy: Dissimulating Muslim Embassies in Habsburg Spain II. Beyond Official Procedures: Individual Material Practices of Diplomatic Actors in a Transcultural Setting 5. Materialities, Spaces, Emotions: The Leuthkauff album amicorum as an Entangled Object and the Challenges of Researching the Material Culture of Diplomacy 6. Diplomatic Homes Abroad: Exploring Ottoman and Habsburg Relations through Furniture and Decoration in the Early Modern Period 7. Material Culture and Practices of Friendship in Intercultural Diplomacy: A Case Study from Late Seventeenth-Century Istanbul III. Material Procedures of Cross-cultural Diplomacy in Imperial and Local Centers of Power 8. Gift Exchange, Marketing, and Memory: The Material Culture of the Moroccan Embassy to Vienna in 1783 9. The Stool, the Curtain, and the Robes of Honour: A Ludic and Material Reading of the Diplomatic Space at Baron Kuefsteinâs Reception in Ottoman Hungary (1628) 10. Mere Container or Object of Intrinsic Value?: A Leather Wallet on Diplomatic Mission in the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars IV. Frontier Objects: The Material Culture of Diplomacy on Imperial Peripheries 11. Textile Diplomacy: Tahitian Bark Cloth in the Age of Early Pacific Encounter 12. English Liquor, Indian Corn: Food Diplomacy and Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Haudenosaunee Relations 13. Objects, Power, and Anishinaabeg-British Diplomacy at Fort St. Joseph, 1796â"1810