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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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