The new globalism: transcultural commerce, global systems theory, and Spenser's Mammon / Daniel Vitkus -- "Travailing" theory: global flows of labor and the enclosure of the subject / Crystal Bartolovich -- Islam and Tamburlaine's world-picture / John Michael Archer -- Traveling nowhere: global utopias in the early modern period / Chloë Houston -- The benefits of a warm study: the resistance to travel before empire / Andrew Hadfield -- "Apes of imitation": imitation and identity in Sir Thomas Roe's embassy to India / Nandini Das -- A multinational corporation: foreign labor in the London East India Company / Richmond Barbour -- Where was Iceland in 1600? / Mary C. Fuller -- East by north-east: the English among the Russians, 1553-1603 / Gerald MacLean -- The politics of identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company's failure in Japan / Catherine Ryu -- The queer Moor: bodies, borders, and Barbary inns / Ian Smith -- Guns and gawds: Elizabethan England's infidel trade / Matthew Dimmock -- Cassio, cash, and the "infidel 0": arithmetic, double-entry bookkeeping, and Othello's unfaithful accounts / Patricia Parker -- Seeds of sacrifice: amaranth the gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser's Faerie queene / Edward M. Test -- "So pale, so lame, so lean, so ruinous:" the circulation of foreign coins in early modern England / Stephen Deng -- Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English traders in the Canaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Barbara Sebek -- "The whole globe of the earth": almanacs and their readers / Adam Smyth -- Cesare Vecellio, Venetian writer and art-book cosmopolitan / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Bettrice's monkey: staging exotica in early modern London comedy / Jean E. Howard -- The Maltese factor: the poetics of place in The Jew of Malta and The knight of Malta / Virginia Mason Vaughan -- Local/global Pericles: international storytelling, domestic social relations, capitalism / David Morrow. This Companion explores the interactions between Europe and other peoples of both the New and Old worlds during the English Renaissance, and their effect on the literature, culture, art, and history of the period
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