Commercial Cosmopolitanism?: Cross-Cultural Objects, Spaces, and Institutions in the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9780367714864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 264 str.

Gottmann, Felicia

Opis

This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern period. It will be important reading for students and scholars working at the intersection of economic, global, and cultural history during this period.

Spis treści

Introduction: Commercial Cosmopolitanism? Transcultural Actors, Objects, Spaces, and Practices in the Early Modern World  Part 1: Cosmopolitan Spaces, Objects, and Actors   1. Controlling the Golden Geese: Canton, Nagasaki and the Limits of Hybridity  2. Trouble in the Contact Zone: Jeremias van Vliet in seventeenth-century Ayutthaya  3. Chinese Commercial Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth-Century Mekong River Delta: The Case of Mạc Thiên Tứ  4. Money Talks: Confessions of a Disgraced Cosmopolitan Coin of the 1640s  5. ‘This Whole Business Should Be Kept Very Secret’: The English Tobacco Workhouses in Moscow  6. Goods from the Sea Countries: Material Cosmopolitanism in Atlantic West Africa  7. From the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic: The Nineteenth-Century Commercial Ventures of Oman-Zanzibar  Part 2: Institutions, Practices, and Agents  8. Hats, Furs and Indigenous Traders in a Global Trade  9. The Social Networks of Cosmopolitan Fraudsters: The Prussian Bengal Company as a Transnational Corporation  10. Quasi-cosmopolitanism: French Directors in Ouidah and Pondicherry (1674-1746)  11. Commercial Cosmopolitanism? The Case of the Firm De Bruijn & Cloots (Lisbon) in the 18th century  12. 'The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Ottoman Algiers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries   13. Making Ireland Poor: Poverty, Trade and Sectarianism in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic

O autorze

Felicia Gottmann is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She is the author of Global Trade, Smuggling, and the Making of Economic Liberalism: Asian Textiles in France 1680-1760 (2016) and, with Maxine Berg et al. editor of Goods from the East, 1600-1800: trading Eurasia (2015). She held Fellowships at the Universities of Harvard, Warwick, Dundee, and Oxford, and is PI of the UKRI-funded Future Leaders Fellowship Project ‘Migration, Adaptation, Innovation 1500–1800’.