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In the early modern period, two European networks, the Society of Jesus and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) spanned the globe and contributed to its multifaceted globalization. This book focuses on the members of the former, Jesuit missionaries, and the employees of the Dutch trading firm originating from Central and Eastern Europe. The well-chosen case studies examine the group characteristics, career influences, and narratives of these Central Eastern Europeans. They explore the question of why subjects of Polish kings, Transylvanian princes, or Habsburg emperors dreamed of venturing overseas with the colonial merchants or aspired to work as missionaries in China and Japan.
The book examines the complexities of this early modern globalization: its scope, limits, importance, social, ethnic, and political ramifications. It researches how these networks reached out to the region of Central and Eastern Europe. The authors argue that the region was hardly considered peripheral from the perspective of Rome (and the Jesuits) or the Netherlands (and the colonial traders). They do, however, explore whether there were "glass ceilings," or limits of reach within the two networks for individuals from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Kingdom of Hungary.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Igor Iwo Chabrowski and Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska
Part I. Archives, Communication, and Identities
Dutch East India Company (VOC): Foundation, Administration, Territories, and Archives - Rafał Szmytka
Jesuit Strategy of Communication and Its Mirror: The Order's Roman Archives - Robert Danieluk
Part II. Group Identities
Polish-Lithuanian Jesuits Searching for a Missionary Field in the Orient, 1610-1723 - Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska
Inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the VOC, 1620-1700 - Rafał Szmytka
A Hungarian Employee of the VOC: The Adventures of András Jelky - Gábor Pusztai
Jesuit Petitioners for the Indies from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern Period - Elisa Frei
Part III. Experience of the Mission
Jesuit Procurators, Traveling between China and Europe, and Dutch East India Employees during the Turbulent Period from the 1640s to the 1680s - Frederik Vermote
A Jesuit among the Kalmyks: An Example of Proto-Ethnography by the Society of Jesus in the Eighteenth Century - Paul Shore
A Great Longing for India vs. the Reality of the Jesuits from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: The Case of Paulus Kostanecki - Monika Miazek-Męczyńska
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