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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 Gèunther -- 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.

"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 uncover the political, social, legal and economic significance in the ways in which diplomatic actors brought artifacts into play during negotiations"--Provided by publisher.

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