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Title Beyond empires : global, self-organizing, cross-imperial networks, 1500-1800 / edited by Cátia Antunes, Amélia Polónia
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages)
Series European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; volume 21
European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 21.
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, 1580s-1800s / 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
Summary Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized cooperative networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2016)
Subject Colonial companies -- Europe -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
Colonial companies
Commerce
Diplomatic relations
Kolonialismus
Kolonialhandel
Handelsgesellschaft
Netzwerk
Außenhandel
SUBJECT Europe -- Commerce -- History
Europe -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045680
Europe -- Colonies -- History
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Antunes, Cátia, 1976- editor.
Polónia, Amélia, editor
LC no. 2016014608
ISBN 9789004304154
9004304150