List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson Part One: Material Flows 2. The Early Modern Fold: Pleated Media in Japan’s Encounter with EuropeKristopher Kersey   3. From Textile to Text: Cloth, Slavery, and the Archive in the Dutch Atlantic Carrie Anderson 4. Drawing Worlds in Smoke, Powder, and Fumes: Bodies and Trifles in Il Tabacco, the Courtly Ballet Staged in Turin (1650)Elisa Antonietta Daniele 5. From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art and Ambivalence in Early Modern Japan Benjamin Schmidt 6. Eggs, Cheese, and (Francis) Bacon Helen Smith  Part Two: In-Between Spaces 7. The Cabinet and the World: Non-European Objects in Early Modern European CollectionsDaniela Bleichmar 8. Le Jeu du monde: Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern FranceTing Chang   9. The World Contained in an Imperial Ottoman AlbumEmine Fetvaci 10. World Building, the Folger Folios, and the University of British ColumbiaPatricia Badir   Part Three: Other Worlds 11. Ascetic Ecology: Landscape of a Desert SaintLyle Massey 12. The End of All: Worldliness, Piety, and the Social Life of Maps in the Post-Reformation English Household Gavin Hollis 13. Enlightenment Cosmology: A Medialogical Interpretation J.B. Shank 14. Masked Alliances: Global Politics and Economy in the Art and Performance Rituals of Mexico’s Indigenous PeopleJohn M.D. Pohl and Danny Zborover 15. Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch RepublicThijs Weststeijn ContributorsIndex

"The essays in this impressive volume focus our attention on the ‘in-between spaces’ of the global early modern, where differing vantage points came into contact and jostled against one another. By emphasizing how these spaces were negotiated through the lives of things such as folding fans, eggs, and board games, they show how early modernity, even as it resulted in the destruction of many societies, initiated a creative process of world-making."