Material culture in modern diplomacy from the 15th to the 20th century / / edited by Harriet Rudolph and Gregor M. Metzig.

The present volume aims at outlining a new field of research with regard to the history of diplomacy: the material culture of diplomatic interaction in early modern and modern times. The material culture of diplomacy includes all practices in foreign policy communication in which single artifacts, s...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,, [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook ; Band 17
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Entangled objects and hybrid practices? : material culture as a new approach to the history of diplomacy / Harriet Rudolph
  • Corals, brass and firearms : material commodities in cultural interactions between Edo and Portuguese in Benin around 1500 / Gregor M. Metzig
  • Gifts of time : watches and clocks in Ottoman-British diplomacy, 1693-1803 / Michael Talbot
  • Peace medal diplomacy in Indian-white relations in nineteenth-century North America / Volker Depkat
  • Society of the "economic miracle" and the non-European world : material culture of state visits during the presidency of Theodor Heuss / Frieder Günther
  • Assembling things right : the material dimensions of West German diplomacy (1950s to 1970s) / Simone Derix
  • Forum
  • The colonial past is never dead, it's not even past : histories of empire, decolonization, and European cultures after 1945 / Matthew G. Stanard.