11 - 29 Introduction (Noémie Étienne)31 - 42 Becoming Self through the Other: Another History of the Enlightenment (Patricia Purtschert)47 - 62 Swiss Porcelain and Slavery in the Global Eighteenth Century (Meredith Martin)63 - 77 Slavery, Exoticism, and Swiss Exceptionalism around 1800 (Bernhard C. Schär)79 - 96 Tea, Textures, and Techniques: Jean-Étienne Liotard and the Arts of Asia (Noémie Étienne)97 - 108 Asian Objects in Switzerland: Between Collector's Items and Consumer Goods (Claire Brizon)112 - 139 Object Inserts 1145 - 159 A Genevan in Quest of the American Museum: Pierre-Eugène Du Simitière (Dominique Poulot)161 - 176 Is Antiquity Exotic? (Julia Genechesi, Lionel Pernet)177 - 193 Printing the Exotic: Forms and Figures of the "Faraway" before the Birth of Anthropology (Sara Petrella)195 - 206 Learning from Objects: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Zurich's Wasserkirche and its Functions (Claudia Rütsche)210 - 237 Object Inserts 2243 - 256 Swiss Chintzes: Cotton Threads and Political Patterns (Chonja Lee)257 - 269 Site of Memory and Projection Surface: Place in Scenic Wallpapers (Étienne Wismer)271 - 283 The Swiss as European Savages? (Ariane Devanthéry)285 - 297 The Discovery of the Alps: Between "Science" and Exoticism (Simona Boscani Leoni)302 - 319 Object Inserts 3325 - 330 Afterword: The Ruses of Exoticism (Alban Bensa)335 - 336 The Fragile Structures of In-Betweenness: Susan Hefuna (Nadia Radwan)337 - 338 Authors339 - 346 Table of Figures347 - 359 Bibliography361 - 364 Index