List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xviii Preface xix Introduction: The Global Renaissance xxiv Jyotsna G. Singh Part I: Mapping the Global 1 1 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser''s Mammon 3 Daniel Vitkus 2 "Travailing" Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject 22 Crystal Bartolovich 3 Islam and Tamburlaine''s World-Picture 37 John Michael Archer 4 Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period 50 Chloë Houston 5 Understanding Slavery in Early Modern Asia: Jesuit Scholarship from Seventeenth-Century Iberia and Asia 64 Stuart M. McManus Part II: "Contact Zones" 79 6 "Apes of Imitation": Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe''s Embassy to India 81 Nandini Das 7 Early Modern European Encounters with Japan: Luis Frois and Engelbert Kaempfer 95 Mihoko Suzuki 8 Other Renaissances, Multiple Easts, and Eurasian Borderlands: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley''s Journey from Persia to Poland, 1608-1611 115 Bernadette Andrea 9 Becoming Mughal, Becoming Dom João de Távora: Friendship, Dissimulation, and Manipulation in Jesuit and Mughal Exchanges 130 João Vicente Melo 10 The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns 149 Ian Smith 11 The Benefits of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel Before Empire 162 Andrew Hadfield 12 The Politics of Identity: Reassessing Global Encounters Through the Failure of the English East India Company in Japan 173 Catherine Ryu 13 Placing Iceland 184 Mary C. Fuller 14 East by Northeast: The English Among the Russians, 1553-1603 197 Gerald MacLean 15 Connected Political Imaginaries: The Shahnamah and Anglo-Persian Alliance Building, 1599-1628 210 Masoud Ghorbaninejad Part III: "To Live by Traffic": Global Networks of Exchange 229 16 The Unseen World of Willem Schellinks: Local Milieu and Global Circulation in the Visualization of Mughal India 231 Jos Gommans and Jan de Hond 17 Hakluyt''s Books and Hawkins'' Slaving Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the English National Imaginary, 1560-1600 249 Jyotsna G. Singh 18 Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England''s "Infidel" Trade 276 Matthew Dimmock 19 Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, The Gardens of Tenochtitlan, and Spenser''s Faerie Queene 290 Edward M. Test 20 "So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous": The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England 305 Stephen Deng 21 Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 319 Barbara Sebek 22 "The Whole Globe of the Earth": Almanacs and Their Readers 332 Adam Smyth 23 Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-Book Cosmopolitan 341 Ann Rosalind Jones 24 A Multinational Corporation: Labor and Ethnicity in the London East India Company 360 Richmond Barbour 25 Patterning the Tatar Girl in George Puttenham''s The Art of English Poesie (1589) 377 Ladan Niayesh Part IV: The Globe Staged 387 26 Bettrice''s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy 389 Jean E. Howard 27 The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta 402 Virginia Mason Vaughan 28 Local-Global Pericles : International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism 415 David Morrow 29 Staging the Global in the Street: Spices, London Companies, and Thomas Middleton''s The Triumphs of Honor and Industry 433 Amrita Sen Afterword: Lyric Poetics for the Global Renaissance 447 Ayesha Ramachandran Index 457.