Objects in Conflict by Volker Depkat
This book presents case studies that analyze the diplomatic uses and functions of robes, furniture, weapons, tools, jewelry, paintings, sculptures, books, food, and other material objects in early modern inter-cultural diplomatic encounters in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific world.
Readers will gain insights into the material dimensions of early modern diplomacy and the cultural logics and diplomatic rationales of object use in a wide range of regional, political, and imperial contexts spanning the Habsburg Empire, France, Spain, the Ottoman Empire, British and French colonial North America, colonial Mexico, Hawaii, and the South Seas. Transcending the established topic of gift exchanges, the volume aims at an analysis of the overall material settings of early modern diplomatic encounters. With its
clear temporal focus on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the source-driven case studies on concrete objects and object groups open multiple paths into the complexities of the early modern era as a formative phase in the history of diplomacy.
The book is intended for historians of the early modern period, particularly diplomatic history, political history, art history, cultural history, religious history, and regional history. It is also relevant for scholars in the field of material culture studies, ethnography, and museology.
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Making the Union Work
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Cross-Cultural Politics and the Suspension of the Portuguese Inquisition 1674–81
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Honourable Intentions?
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John Stearne's Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft
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Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 1650-1850
- Tangled Threads
- The Market Space of Portuguese Cities
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The British and German Worlds in an Age of Divergence (1600-1850)
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The Post-Tridentine Apostolic Nunciatures (1562–1605)
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Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition
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Interdisciplinary Edo
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Diplomacy and the Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy
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The Episteme of the Gallic Past
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Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand
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Houses, Families, and Cohabitation
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Soldiers and Migrants
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Anglo-Prussian Relations 1701–1713
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Exploring Sixteenth-Century Italy Through the Poems of Giulio Cesare Croce
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Children and Young People in Eighteenth-Century Malta, ca. 1740 to 1798
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Roman Ambitions
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Colonel Philip Jones, Oliver Cromwell and the British Revolutions in South Wales
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Manila, 1645
- Religion and Ideas in Southern Italy
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James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603
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Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Connecting the Renaissance
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Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece
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Britain under the Shadow of Arthur
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The Female Convents of Lisbon, 1640 to 1750
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The Bible Interpreted by Women in Early Modern Italy: Promoting Dignity and Agency
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The Renaissance of Plotinus
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Individuality in Early Modern Japan
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The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era
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The English Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change
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The Turks and Islam in Reformation Germany
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Plural Pasts
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India in the Italian Renaissance
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The Reformation of England's Past
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Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England
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The English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763
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Science in an Enchanted World
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Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy
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Criminal Justice During the Long Eighteenth Century
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Images of Change
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The Making of the Modern Corporation
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Brokerage and Networks in London’s Global World
Volker Depkat is Professor of American Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His recent publications include American Exceptionalism (2021), A New American Confederation: How German Federalism Inspired the US-Constitution (2024; co-authored), and Representations and Uses of the American Revolution in Past and Present (2025; co-edited).
Harriet Rudolph is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Her publications include Material Culture in Modern Diplomacy from the 15th to the 20th Century (2016; co-edited) and “Istanbul as a Collection Site: Cross-Cultural Networks of Knowledge in the Alba Amicorum of Ernst Brinck and Wolfgang Leuthkauff” in WissensWelten – Worlds of Knowledge (2026).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781032884691 |
| Title | Objects in Conflict |
| Author | Volker Depkat |
| Series | Routledge Research In Early Modern History |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2026-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 354 |
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