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

• Superior document: European Expansion and Indigenous Response, Volume 21
• TeilnehmendeR: Antunes, Cátia, 1976-; Polónia, Amélia,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: European expansion and indigenous response ; Volume 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (327 pages) :; illustrations (some color), tables, graphs.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; The Evolution of Norms in Trade and Financial Networks in the First Global Age: The Case of the Simon Ruiz’s Network /; Trans-Imperial and Cross-Cultural Networks for the Slave Trade, 1580's–1800's /; Dutch and English Approaches to Cross-Cultural Trade in Mughal India and the Problem of Trust, 1600–1630 /; ‘The Japanese Connection’: Self-Organized Smuggling Networks in Nagasaki circa 1666–1742 /; The Pirate Round: Globalized Sea Robbery and Self-Organizing Trans-Maritime Networks around 1700 /; Merchant Cooperation in Society and State: A Case Study in the Hispanic Monarchy /; In the Shadow of the Companies: Empires of Trade in the Orient and Informal Entrepreneurship /; Smuggling for Survival: Self-Organized, Cross-Imperial Colony Building in Essequibo and Demerara, 1746–1796 /; Trading with Asia without a Colonial Empire in Asia: Swedish Merchant Networks and Chartered Company Trade, 1760–1790 /; 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 /; Epilogue /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004304150
• ISSN: 1873-8974
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Cátia Antunes, Amélia Polónia.

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.