List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xvi
Introduction: The Global Renaissance 1
Jyotsna G. Singh
Part I: Mapping the Global 29
1 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser's Mammon 31
Daniel Vitkus
2 Travailing Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject 50
Crystal Bartolovich
3 Islam and Tamburlaine's World-picture 67
John Michael Archer
4 Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period 82
Chloe Houston
Part II: Contact Zones 99
5 The Benefi ts of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel before Empire 101
Andrew Hadfield
6 Apes of Imitation: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to India 114
Nandini Das
7 A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company 129
Richmond Barbour
8 Where was Iceland in 1600? 149
Mary C. Fuller
9 East by North-east: The English among the Russians, 1553-1603 163
Gerald MacLean
10 The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company's Failure in Japan 178
Catherine Ryu
11 The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns 190
Ian Smith
Part III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects 205
12 Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England's Infi del Trade 207
Matthew Dimmock
13 Cassio, Cash, and the Infidel 0: Arithmetic, Double-entry Bookkeeping, and Othello's Unfaithful Accounts 223
Patricia Parker
14 Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, the Gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser's Faerie Queene 242
Edward M. Test
15 So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England 262
Stephen Deng
16 Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 279
Barbara Sebek
17 The Whole Globe of the Earth: Almanacs and Their Readers 294
Adam Smyth
18 Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-book Cosmopolitan 305
Ann Rosalind Jones
Part IV: The Globe Staged 323
19 Bettrice's Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy 325
Jean E. Howard
20 The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta 340
Virginia Mason Vaughan
21 Local/Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism 355
David Morrow
Index 378