Material culture in modern diplomacy from the 15th to the 20th century

"The present volume aims at outlining a new field of historical research: the material culture of diplomacy in early modern and modern times. The chapters study a complex web of relations between artefacts, human beings, and spaces in intercultural diplomacy in different regions of the world to...

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Weitere Verfasser: Rudolph, Harriet 1966- (HerausgeberIn), Metzig, Gregor M. 1982- (HerausgeberIn), De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2016]
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Jahrbuch für europäische Geschichte 17.2016
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Jahrbuch für europäische Geschichte
Schlagworte:Diplomacy Material culture International relations Intercultural communication World politics Kongreß Sachkultur Diplomatie Aussenpolitik Geschichte 1500-1970
Umfang:176 Seiten
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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