The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, C. 1550-1750

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38781-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Global Economic History Series

William A. Pettigrew and David Veevers put forward a new interpretation of the role Europe’s overseas corporations played in early modern global history, recasting them from vehicles of national expansion to significant forces of global integration. Across the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Pacific, corporations provided a truly global framework for facilitating the circulation, movement and exchange between and amongst European and non-European communities, bringing them directly into dialogue often for the first time.

Usually understood as imperial or colonial commercial enterprises, The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History reveals the unique global sociology of overseas corporations to provide a new global history in which non-Europeans emerged as key stakeholders in European overseas enterprises in the early modern world.

Contributors include: Michael D. Bennett, Aske Laursen Brock, Liam D. Haydon, Lisa Hellman, Leonard Hodges, Emily Mann, Simon Mills, Chris Nierstrasz, Edgar Pereira, Edmond Smith, Haig Smith, and Anna Winterbottom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pettigrew, William A.

Veevers, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction

William A. Pettigrew and David Veevers

Part One – English Case Studies

1. Political Economy

William A. Pettigrew

2. Migration

Michael D. Bennett

3. Networks

Aske Laursen Brock

4. Literature

Liam D. Haydon

5. Religion

Haig Smith

6. Governance

Edmond J. Smith

7. Gender

David Veevers

8. Building

Emily Mann

9. Science

Anna Winterbottom

10. Scholarship

Simon Mills

Part Two – European Responses

11. Scandinavian

Lisa Hellmann

12. French

Leonard Hodges

13. Iberian

Edgar Pereira

14. Dutch

Chris Nierstrasz

Index

Über Autor(innen)

William A. Pettigrew, Ph.D. (2006), Oxford University, is Professor of History at Lancaster University. He has authored a number of edited volumes and published widely in journals on England’s overseas trading corporations, especially the Royal African Company. His first monograph, Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2013), won the Jamestown Prize.

David Veevers, Ph.D. (2015), University of Kent, is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published in numerous edited volumes and journals on the English East India Company. His first monograph, A Hundred Gates: Asia and the Transnational Origins of the British Empire, 1600 – 1800, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.