Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Note on Names and Dates xv
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction: The Prince, the Jeweler, and the Mogul 1
7. 1. Mirrors (or, Fantasies of Absolute Rule) 10
8. 2. Crowns (or, The Men Who Would Be Kings) 27
9. 3. Thrones (or, The Prince, the Mogul, and Cultural Mixing) 49
10. 4. Rulers (or, When the Age of Absolutism Met the First Age of Globalism) 62
11. 5. Scales (or, Figuring Miniatures in Princely Courts) 81
12. 6. Miniatures (or, The Early Modern Moment of the Micro-Object) 100
13. 7. Magi (or, Miniatures Between Sacrality and Play) 111
14. 8. Hands (and Frogs and Pyramids) 131
15. 9. Gods (or, The Global History of Pagan Religion) 151
16. 10. Scripts (or, Framing the Mogul in the Global History of Writing) 168
17. 11. Uniqueness (or, Accounting for the Unaccountable) 185
18. 12. Epilogue The Prince, the Alchemist, and the Emperor of China (or, How Dinglinger and the Großmogul Lost the Battle with Modernity) 210
19. Notes 219
20. Photographic Credits 291
21. Index 295