Merchant Cultures : A Global Approach to Spaces, Representations and Worlds of Trade, 1500-1800 (European Expansion and Indigenous Response)

Antunes, Cátia A.P. (EDT)/ Bethencourt, Francisco (EDT)

Brill（2022/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 362 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004506558
• DDC分類 382.09

Full Description

Hans Holbein's Triumphs (1532-1534), commissioned for the headquarters of the Hanseatic League in London and Kano Naizen's The Portuguese namban ('foreigners') painted in 1543 in Japan are representations of worlds of trade, where wealth, speculation, exploitation, poverty, curiosity, encounters and the exotic relate effortlessly. These worlds multiplied in Africa, the America's, Asia and Europe as mercantile cultures met in a globalizing world. From these encounters, power, subjugation and conflict arose as part of the same world as cooperation, cross-culturalism and cosmopolitism. Understanding early modern merchant cultures is thus paramount to comprehend the sinews of globalization before 1800.

Merchants worldwide shared trading interests. These interests shaped a panoply of encounters of mercantile cultures across space and time. This book sketches the commonalities and underlines the differences of mercantile practices and representations during the Early Modern period.

Contributors are: Laurence Fontaine, David Graizbord, William Pettigrew, Edmond J. Smith, Radhika Seshan, Rila Mukherjee, Jurre J. A. Knoest, Noelle Richardson, Joseph P. McDermott, Mark Harberlëin, Francisco Bethencourt, Edgar Pereira, and Germano Maifreda.

Contents

Merchant Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Merchant Cultures: An Introduction

 Francisco Bethencourt and Cátia Antunes

PART 1: Questions, Approaches and Representations

2 Merchant Strategies for Long Distance Trade in Aristocratic Political Economies

 Laurence Fontaine

3 Commercial Practices by New Christian/Jewish Groups and Their Sense of 'Cultural Identity', 'Loyalties' and 'Belonging'

 David Graizbord

4 Subordinate to Strangers: Thomas Kerridge at Ahmadabad in 1615 and the Limits of Mercantilist Dogma in International Commercial Settings

 William Pettigrew

5 Commercial Culture in Contested Spaces

 Edmond J. Smith

PART 2: The Asian World

6 'Indigenous' Merchant Networks and the English East India Company on the Coromandel Coast in the Seventeenth Century

 Radhika Seshan

7 Agents of Empire in Golconda and Bengal: 1630-1757

 Rila Mukherjee

8 Doing Business by the Grace of the Shogun: Strategies, Trade Negotiations, and Cross-Cultural (Mis)Understandings in Early Modern Nagasaki

 Jurre J. A. Knoest

9 Hindu Mercantile Culture and Practices in Goa, 1750-1818

 Noelle Richardson

10 The 'Way of the Merchant' in Late Imperial China

 Joseph P. McDermott

PART 3: The Euro-Atlantic World

11 Apprentices, Sojourners, Expatriates: Southern German Merchants in European Cities, c. 1450-1650

 Mark Häberlein

12 Merchant Culture: Holbein's Triumphs

 Francisco Bethencourt

13 Doing Business with One's Sovereign: Merchant-Banking and Portfolio Management in Habsburg Portugal and the Empire (1580-1640)

 Edgar Pereira

14 Religious Freedom and Institutions in Pre-modern Markets: Is Italy's Case a Guide?

 Germano Maifreda

Index