Carina L. Johnson, a historian and former archeologist, is currently an Associate Professor at Pitzer College and Extended Faculty at Claremont Graduate University. She is the recipient of a John Carter Brown Library NEH Fellowship, the Barbara Thom Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Fulbright Award to Austria and the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. She has been published in the Journal of the History of Ideas. This is her first book.

'In this original, imaginative, and solidly researched book, Johnson draws on an impressive array of textual and visual evidence to answer the following intriguing questions: how did the Habsburg realms receive and process information on Meso-Americans of the New World and on Turks of the Ottoman Empire, and in what ways were the actual persons, images, and cultural artifacts of these non-European peoples and their material cultures represented and used during the sixteenth century? The result is an impeccable work of scholarship with complex and subtle arguments.' R. Po-chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University

• Part I. Categories of Inclusion: 1. Cultures and religions; 2. Iberia after Convivencia; 3. Aztec regalia and the reformation of treasure; Part II. Experiments of Inclusion: 4. Boundaries and cultures of diplomacy in central Europe; 5. Imperial authority in an era of confessions; 6. Collecting idolatry and the emergence of the exotic; Part III. Conclusion: 7. Categorical denials.

Carina L. Johnson, a historian and former archeologist, is currently an Associate Professor at Pitzer College and Extended Faculty at Claremont Graduate University. She is the recipient of a John Carter Brown Library NEH Fellowship, the Barbara Thom Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Fulbright Award to Austria and the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. She has been published in the Journal of the History of Ideas. This is her first book.

'In this original, imaginative, and solidly researched book, Johnson draws on an impressive array of textual and visual evidence to answer the following intriguing questions: how did the Habsburg realms receive and process information on Meso-Americans of the New World and on Turks of the Ottoman Empire, and in what ways were the actual persons, images, and cultural artifacts of these non-European peoples and their material cultures represented and used during the sixteenth century? The result is an impeccable work of scholarship with complex and subtle arguments.' R. Po-chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University

• Part I. Categories of Inclusion: 1. Cultures and religions; 2. Iberia after Convivencia; 3. Aztec regalia and the reformation of treasure; Part II. Experiments of Inclusion: 4. Boundaries and cultures of diplomacy in central Europe; 5. Imperial authority in an era of confessions; 6. Collecting idolatry and the emergence of the exotic; Part III. Conclusion: 7. Categorical denials.

Carina L. Johnson, a historian and former archeologist, is currently an Associate Professor at Pitzer College and Extended Faculty at Claremont Graduate University. She is the recipient of a John Carter Brown Library NEH Fellowship, the Barbara Thom Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Fulbright Award to Austria and the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. She has been published in the Journal of the History of Ideas. This is her first book.

'In this original, imaginative, and solidly researched book, Johnson draws on an impressive array of textual and visual evidence to answer the following intriguing questions: how did the Habsburg realms receive and process information on Meso-Americans of the New World and on Turks of the Ottoman Empire, and in what ways were the actual persons, images, and cultural artifacts of these non-European peoples and their material cultures represented and used during the sixteenth century? The result is an impeccable work of scholarship with complex and subtle arguments.' R. Po-chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University

• Part I. Categories of Inclusion: 1. Cultures and religions; 2. Iberia after Convivencia; 3. Aztec regalia and the reformation of treasure; Part II. Experiments of Inclusion: 4. Boundaries and cultures of diplomacy in central Europe; 5. Imperial authority in an era of confessions; 6. Collecting idolatry and the emergence of the exotic; Part III. Conclusion: 7. Categorical denials.