Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. Acknowledgments X
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I Moving and Belonging
7. Chapter 1. Their Last Days in Europe 23
8. Chapter 2 Between Beutelsbach and Batavia 45
9. Chapter 3 Encountering Opportunities 68
10. Chapter 4 Between Slavery and Exoticism 86
11. Part II Globality: The World of the Hometown
12. Chapter 5. Bringing the World to German Home Towns 111
13. Chapter 6 Two Inventories—Two Braunschweigs 134
14. Chapter 7 Encountering the Middle East in Early Modern Germany 155
15. Chapter 8 A Small Town in Germany and Its Global Dis:connections 176
16. Chapter 9 Putting the Hanse on the Map 194
17. Part III Materiality: Local Tastes for the Global
18. Chapter 10. Global Goods, Familiar Strangers, and Some Local Knowledge of the World: A View from the German-Dutch Borderlands, ca. 1700 215
19. Chapter 11 Global Food in Southwestern Germany around 1770 239
20. Chapter 12 Reading Materials 256
21. Chapter 13 Global Itineraries, Curative Effects, and Sacred Scents 277
22. Chapter 14 Colonial Objects in the Cabinet of Curiosities? 301
23. Part IV Going Beyond: Perspectives and Agendas
24. Conclusion. German Global Microhistory, or 323
25. Appendix 6.1 331
26. Appendix 6.2 338
27. Index 341