Merchant cultures : a global approach to spaces, representations and worlds of trade, 1500-1800
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Merchant cultures : a global approach to spaces, representations and worlds of trade, 1500-1800
(European expansion and indigenous response / edited by Glenn J. Ames, v. 37)
Brill, c2022
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Description
The way merchants trade, think about business and represent commerce in art forms define merchant culture. The world between 1500 and 1800 encompassed different merchant cultures that stood alone and in contact with others. Culture, power relations and institutions framed similarities and differences and outlined the global outcome of these exchanges.
Table of Contents
Merchant Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Merchant Cultures: An Introduction
Francisco Bethencourt and Catia 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 Haberlein
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
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