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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798322203321

Titolo

Beyond empires : global, self-organizing, cross-imperial networks, 1500-1800 / / edited by Cátia Antunes, Amélia Polónia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-30415-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, graphs

Collana

European Expansion and Indigenous Response, , 1873-8974 ; ; Volume 21

Disciplina

382.094

Soggetti

Colonial companies - Europe - History

Europe Commerce History

Europe Foreign relations

Europe Colonies History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia -- Introduction / Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia -- The Evolution of Norms in Trade and Financial Networks in the First Global Age: The Case of the Simon Ruiz’s Network / Ana Sofia Ribeiro -- Trans-Imperial and Cross-Cultural Networks for the Slave Trade, 1580's–1800's / Filipa Ribeiro da Silva -- Dutch and English Approaches to Cross-Cultural Trade in Mughal India and the Problem of Trust, 1600–1630 / Guido van Meersbergen -- ‘The Japanese Connection’: Self-Organized Smuggling Networks in Nagasaki circa 1666–1742 / Jurre Knoest -- The Pirate Round: Globalized Sea Robbery and Self-Organizing Trans-Maritime Networks around 1700 / Michael Kempe -- Merchant Cooperation in Society and State: A Case Study in the Hispanic Monarchy / Ana Crespo Solana -- In the Shadow of the Companies: Empires of Trade in the Orient and Informal Entrepreneurship / Chris Nierstrasz -- Smuggling for Survival: Self-Organized, Cross-Imperial Colony Building in Essequibo and Demerara, 1746–1796 / Bram Hoonhout -- Trading with Asia without a Colonial Empire in Asia: Swedish Merchant Networks and Chartered Company Trade, 1760–1790 / Leos Müller -- Was Warfare



Necessary for the Functioning of Eighteenth-Century Colonial Systems? Some Reflections on the Necessity of Cross-Imperial and Foreign Trade in the French Case / Silvia Marzagalli -- Epilogue / Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia -- Bibliography / Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia -- Index / Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia.

Sommario/riassunto

Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasizes the role played by individuals, rather than institutions, in the overseas expansion and consequent development of European empires. While unveiling the practices and mechanisms of cooperation between individuals, this volume show cases the role played by individuals for the creation, development and maintenance of self-organized networks in the Early Modern period. Applying new conceptual and theoretical inputs, this book values the contributions of different ‘worlds’, bringing to the fore the interactions of Europeans and non-Europeans, Christians and non-Christians, people living within-, on- or just outside the border of empire.