List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Globalizing Early Modern Germany Christina Brauner, Renate Dürr, Philip Hahn, Anne Sophie Overkamp, and Simon Siemianowski Part I: Mobility: Moving and Belonging Chapter 1. Their Last Days in Europe. Germans on the Amsterdam VOC Fleet of 1775 Jelle van Lottum and Lodewijk Petram Chapter 2. Between Beutelsbach and Batavia: A Cooper's Career and His Involvement in Colonial Violence Philip Hahn Chapter 3. Encountering Opportunities: Inheritances, Knowledge Gaps, and Invented Global Connections in the German "Hinterland" Lukas Wissel Chapter 4. Between Slavery and Exoticism: People of Color at the Dresden Court Rebekka von Mallinckrodt Part II: Globality: The World of the Hometown Chapter 5. Bringing the World to German Home Towns? Lutheran Baptisms in the Context of Abduction and Slavery Renate Dürr Chapter 6. Two Inventories - Two Braunschweigs: Hometown Germans and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Economy Eve Rosenhaft Chapter 7.
Encountering the Middle East in Early Modern Germany: A Prince of Palestine in Nuremberg, 1778-1779 Tobias P. Graf Chapter 8. A Small Town in Germany and Its Global Dis:connections Anne Sophie Overkamp Chapter 9. Putting the Hanse on the Map: The Civitates Orbs Terrarum (1572-1617) as a Mediated Global Encounter Suzie Hermán Part III: Materiality: Local Tastes for the Global Chapter 10. Global Goods, Familiar Strangers, and Some Local Knowledge of the World: A View from the German-Dutch Borderlands, ca. 1700 Christina Brauner Chapter 11. Global Food in Southwestern Germany around 1770 Daniel Menning Chapter 12. Reading Materials: Gift Exchanges between Sonora, Spain, and Lucerne Simon Siemianowski Chapter 13.
Global Itineraries, Curative Effects, and Sacred Scents: Eaglewood Rosaries in Early Modern German Material Culture Anne Mariss Chapter 14. Colonial Objects in the Cabinet of Curiosities? Christoph Weickmann's "Outlandish Things" in Ulm Kim Siebenhüner Part IV: Going Beyond: Perspectives and Agendas Conclusion: German Global Microhistory, or: The How and The Why Ulrike Strasser Appendix 6.1 Appendix 6.2 Index.