Jyotsna G. Singh is a Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches early modern literature and culture, post-colonial theory, translation studies, and gender and race studies. Her published works include Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: 'Discovery' of India in the Language of Colonialism (1996); The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics (co-authored, with Dympna Callaghan and Lorraine Helms, 1994); and Travel Knowledge: European 'Discoveries' in the Early Modern Period (co-edited with Ivo Kamps, 2001). She has received several research fellowships, including at the Folger Shakespeare Library,Queen Mary, University of London, and the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.  She has also been invited to direct two workshops on "Early Modern Anglo Muslim Encounters" at the Renaissance Center of the Newberry Library, in Chicago.  She is currently working on a monograph on early English Slave Trade.

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• List of Illustrations ixNotes on Contributors xAcknowledgments xviIntroduction: The Global Renaissance 1Jyotsna G. SinghPart I: Mapping the Global 29 1 The New Globalism: Transcultural Commerce, Global Systems Theory, and Spenser’s Mammon 31Daniel Vitkus2 “Travailing” Theory: Global Flows of Labor and the Enclosure of the Subject 50Crystal Bartolovich3 Islam and Tamburlaine’s World-picture 67John Michael Archer4 Traveling Nowhere: Global Utopias in the Early Modern Period 82Chloë HoustonPart II: “Contact Zones” 995 The Benefi ts of a Warm Study: The Resistance to Travel before Empire 101Andrew Hadfield6 “Apes of Imitation”: Imitation and Identity in Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to India 114Nandini Das7 A Multinational Corporation: Foreign Labor in the London East India Company 129Richmond Barbour8 Where was Iceland in 1600? 149Mary C. Fuller9 East by North-east: The English among the Russians, 1553–1603 163Gerald MacLean10 The Politics of Identity: William Adams, John Saris, and the English East India Company’s Failure in Japan 178Catherine Ryu11 The Queer Moor: Bodies, Borders, and Barbary Inns 190Ian SmithPart III: Networks of Exchange: Traveling Objects 20512 Guns and Gawds: Elizabethan England’s Infi del Trade 207Matthew Dimmock13 Cassio, Cash, and the “Infidel 0”: Arithmetic, Double-entry Bookkeeping, and Othello’s Unfaithful Accounts 223Patricia Parker14 Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, the Gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser’s Faerie Queene 242Edward M. Test15 “So Pale, So Lame, So Lean, So Ruinous”: The Circulation of Foreign Coins in Early Modern England 262Stephen Deng16 Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 279Barbara Sebek17 “The Whole Globe of the Earth”: Almanacs and Their Readers 294Adam Smyth18 Cesare Vecellio, Venetian Writer and Art-book Cosmopolitan 305Ann Rosalind JonesPart IV: The Globe Staged 32319 Bettrice’s Monkey: Staging Exotica in Early Modern London Comedy 325Jean E. Howard20 The Maltese Factor: The Poetics of Place in The Jew of Malta and The Knight of Malta 340Virginia Mason Vaughan21 Local/Global Pericles: International Storytelling, Domestic Social Relations, Capitalism 355David MorrowIndex 378