Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World
About the Book Series
The books published in this series pursue particular historical themes that illuminate the interactive and interconnected dimensions of the early modern world, roughly periodized from 1400 to 1800. These studies either take a comparative approach to commensurate historical developments in various parts of the world or examine trans-regional patterns and forces that affected local societies. The series places emphasis on intellectual, cultural, religious, and economic analyses on topics such as migration streams and diasporas, empire-building and colonialism, epidemiological patterns and environmental changes, long-distance trade and commercial networking, and missionary programs and spiritual encounters. Authors working on these and related topics connect the global phenomena to local peoples in their nations, cities, villages, tribes, and families. Thus, this series explores the reciprocity between global processes and local affairs, which illustrate the unfolding human condition in specific historical moments.
Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650: Reading Debates over Risk and Reward
1st Edition
By Julia Schleck
December 01, 2025
Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England’s earliest global trading ventures. Arguments over the staggering loss of lives and national resources...
Jesuit Missionary Cartography of the Upper Amazon, 1689 to 1789
1st Edition
By Irina Saladin
December 01, 2025
In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the upper Amazon. These missionaries belonged to the very small group of Europeans who lived in the forests of the Amazon Basin for longer periods, in close ...
The Swedish Monarchy and the Copper Trade: The Copper Company, the Deposit System, and the Amsterdam Market, 1600-1640
1st Edition
By Lawrence Stryker
December 01, 2025
In 1611, the seventeen-year-old Gustav Adolf ascended the throne of Sweden. Before the new king could sit on his throne, however, he faced a disastrous war against Denmark, another conflict in Russia, and a rebellious nobility at home. Plus, Sweden itself had an arctic climate and a short growing ...
Missionary Enchantment in South Asia, 16th-18th Centuries: Catholic Histories and Fictions
1st Edition
By Ines G. Zupanov
January 27, 2025
Max Weber’s classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European and Indian early modern cultural encounters from the 16th century onward. Since Portuguese imperialism was unable to justify itself without invoking ...