Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800

Abstract

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. 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.