INTRODUCTION.Jyotsna Singh: The Global Renaissance.I. MAPPING THE GLOBAL.1. Daniel Vitkus (Florida State University): The New Globalism: Trans-cultural commerce, global systems theory, and Spenser's Mammon.2. Crystal Bartolovich (Syracuse University): 'Travailing' theory: Global flows of labor and the enclosure of the subject.
3. John Michael Archer (New York University): Misrepresentation, representation, and religion: Islam and Tamburlaine's world-picture.4. Chloë Houston (University of Reading): Travelling nowhere: Global utopias in the early modern period.II. 'CONTACT ZONES'.5. Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex): The benefits of a warm study: The resistance to travel before empire.
6. Nandini Das (University of Liverpool): 'Apes of imitation': Imitation and identity in Sir Thomas Roe's embassy to India.7. Richmond Barbour (Oregan State University): A multinational corporation: Foreign labour in the London East India Company.8. Mary Fuller (Associate Professor of Literature at MIT): Where was Iceland in 1600?.9. Gerald Maclean (University of Exeter): East by Northeast: The English among the Russians, 1553-1603.
10 Catherine Ryu (Michigan State University): The politics of identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India company's failure in Japan.11. Ian Smith (Lafayette College): The queer Moor: Bodies, borders and Barbary inns.III. NETWORKS OF EXCHANGE: TRAVELING OBJECTS.12. Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex): Guns and gawds: Elizabethan England's infidel trade.13.
Patricia Parker (Stanford University): Cassio, Cash, and the "Infidel 0": Arithmetic, Double-Entry Bookkeeping, and Othello's Unfaithful Accounts.14. Edward M. Test (Boise State University): Seeds of sacrifice: Amaranth, the gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser's Faerie Queene.15. Stephen Deng (Michigan State University): "So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous": The circulation of foreign coins in early modern England.16. Barbara Sebek (Colorado State University): Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English traders in the Canaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth Centuries.
17. Adam Smyth (University of Reading): 'The whole Globe of the Earth': almanacs and their readers.18. Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College): Cesare Vecellio, Venetian writer and art-book cosmopolitan.IV. THE GLOBE STAGED.19. Jean E.
Howard (Columbia University): Bettrice's Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy.20. Virginia Vaughan (Clark University): The Maltese factor: The poetics of place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta.21. David Morrow (Saint Rose): Local/Global Pericles: international storytelling, domestic social relations, capitalism.