Intro -- Contents -- Entangled Objects and Hybrid Practices? Material Culture as a New Approach to the History of Diplomacy -- Corals, Brass and Firearms. Material Commodities in Cultural Interactions between Edo and Portuguese in Benin around 1500 -- Gifts of Time: Watches and Clocks in Ottoman-British Diplomacy, 1693-1803 -- Peace Medal Diplomacy in Indian-White Relations in Nineteenth-Century North America -- Society of the "Economic Miracle" and the Non-European World. Material Culture of State Visits during the Presidency of Theodor Heuss -- Assembling Things Right. The Material Dimensions of West German Diplomacy (1950s to 1970s) -- Forum -- The colonial past is never dead. It's not even past: Histories of Empire, Decolonization, and European Cultures after 1945 -- List of Contributors.