Beyond Empires

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 emphasises the role played by individuals, rather than institutions, in the overseas expansion and consequent development of European e...

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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 emphasises 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.

Catia Antunes, PhD (2004), Leiden University, is Associate Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She is the author of Globalization in the Early Modern Period (2004), with Francesca Trivellato and Leor Halevi (eds.), Religion and Trade (2014) and with Jos Gommans (eds.), Exploring the Dutch Empire (2015). She has been award...

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Catia Antunes, PhD (2004), Leiden University, is Associate Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She is the author of Globalization in the Early Modern Period (2004), with Francesca Trivellato and Leor Halevi (eds.), Religion and Trade (2014) and with Jos Gommans (eds.), Exploring the Dutch Empire (2015). She has been awarded a VIDI-NWO grant and a European Research Council Starting Grant.

Amélia Polónia, PhDC (2000), University of Porto, is Associate Professor of Portuguese Overseas Expansion at the Univerity of Porto, Portugal. She is Vice-President of the International Maritime Economic History Association and has been Principal Investigator of Hisportos (POCTI/HAR/36417/2000) and DynCoopNet (a ESF-TECT INCORE project). She is the author of A Expansão Ultramarina numa perspectiva local. O porto de Vila do Conde no século XVI (2007); The environmental impacts of the historical uses of the seas in the First Global Age [http://www.eolss.net] (2014), co-editor of Maritime History as Global History (2011), with Maria Fusaro and Seaports in the First Global Age ,1500-1800. Portuguese Agents, Networks and Interactions (2016), with Cátia Antunes.

List of Figures and Maps
List of Contributors
Introduction: Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizin, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800 – An Introduction
Catia Antunes and Amélia Polónia
Chapter 1: 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
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List of Figures and Maps
List of Contributors
Introduction: Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizin, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800 – An Introduction
Catia Antunes and Amélia Polónia
Chapter 1: 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
Chapter 2: Trans-Imperial and Cross-Cultural Networks for the Slave Trade, 1580s-1800s
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Chapter 3: Dutch and English Approaches to Cross-Cultural Trade in Mughal India and the Problem of Trust (ca 1600-1630)
Guido van Meersbergen
Chapter 4: ‘The Japanese Connection’: Self-Organizing Smuggling Networks in Nagasaki circa 1666-1746
J. J. A. Knoest
Chapter 5: The Pirate Round. Globalized Sea Robbery and Self-Organizing Trans-Maritime Networks around 1700
Michael Kempe
Chapter 6: Merchant Cooperation in Society and State: a Case Study in the Hispanic Monarchy
Ana Crespo Solana
Chapter 7: In the Shadow of the Companies: Empires of Trade in the Orient and Informal Entrepreneurship
Chris Nierstrasz
Chapter 8: Smuggling for Survival: Self-Organized, Cross-Imperial Colony Building in Essequibo and Demerara, 1746-1796
Bram Hoonhout
Chapter 9: Trading with Asia without a Colonial Empire in Asia: Swedish Merchant Networks and Chartered Company Trade, 1760-1790
Leos Müller
Chapter 10: 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
Catia Antunes and Amélia Polónia
Index
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