Beyond empires : : global, self-organizing, cross-imperial networks, 1500-1800 / / 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...
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| Superior document: | European Expansion and Indigenous Response, Volume 21 |
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| 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 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.