List of Illustrations
Foreword
-Malcolm Baker
Introduction
-Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall
I. COLLECTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
Chapter 1. Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections
-Daniela Bleichmar
Chapter 2. Collecting Global Icons: The Case of the Exotic Parasol
-Benjamin Schmidt
Chapter 3. Ancient Europe and Native Americans: A Comparative Reflection on the Roots of Antiquarianism
-Alain Schnapp
II. COLLECTING AND THE FORMATION OF GLOBAL NETWORKS
Chapter 4. Aztec Regalia and the Reformation of Display
-Carina L. Johnson
Chapter 5. Dead Natures or Still Lifes? Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque
-JosÉ RamÓn Marcaida and Juan Pimentel
Chapter 6. Crying a Muck: Collecting, Domesticity, and Anomie in Seventeenth-Century Banten and England
-Robert Batchelor
Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650-1750
-CÉcile Fromont
Chapter 8. European Wonders at the Court of Siam
-Sarah Benson
III. COLLECTING PEOPLE
Chapter 9. Collecting and Accounting: Representing Slaves as Commodities in Jamaica, 1674-1784
-Trevor Burnard
Chapter 10. ''Collecting Americans'': The Anglo-American Experience from Cabot to NAGPRA
-Peter C. Mancall
IV. EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS OF AMERICANA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Chapter 11. Spanish Collections of Americana in the Late Eighteenth Century
-Paz Cabello Carro
Chapter 12. MartÍnez CompaÑÓn and His Illustrated ''Museum''
-Lisa Trever and Joanne Pillsbury
Chapter 13. Europe Rediscovers Latin America: Collecting Artifacts and Views in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century
-Pascal Riviale
Chapter 14. Image and Experience in the Land of Nopal and Maguey: Collecting and Portraying Mexico in Two Nineteenth-Century French Albums
-Megan E. O'Neil
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
