Merchant cultures : a global approach to spaces, representations and worlds of trade, 1500-1800 / edited by Cátia Antunes and Francisco Bethencourt

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Intro -- Contents -- General Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Merchant Cultures: An Introduction -- Part 1. Questions, Approaches and Representations -- 2. Merchant Strategies for Long Distance Trade in Aristocratic Political Economies -- 1 Controlling Loyalties -- 2 Death and Mobility -- 3 Succeeding in an Aristocratic and Religious World -- 4 To Become Accepted -- 5 Conclusion -- 3. Commercial Practices by New Christian/Jewish Groups -- 1 The Portuguese Mercantile 'Nation' as a Transcultural Entity and a Home for Its Members -- 4. Subordinate to Strangers: Thomas Kerridge at Ahmadabad in 1615 and the Limits of Mercantilist -- 1 Muqarrab Khan and the Beginnings of English Subordination -- 2 Thomas Kerridge and Commercial Subordination -- 3 Conclusion -- 5. Commercial Culture in Contested Spaces -- 1 Portuguese Trade on the Costa da Mina -- Part 2. The Asian World -- 6. 'Indigenous' Merchant Networks and the English East India Company on the Coromandel Coast -- 7. Agents of Empire in Golconda and Bengal: 1630-1757 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Region versus Empire -- 3 Comparing Golconda and Bengal -- 4 Transnational Warrior States -- 5 Introducing the Contractor State -- 6 Politics, the Merchant and the State -- 7 Agents of Empire in the Contractor State -- 8 Networked Entrepreneurs -- 9 Agents Transitioning from a Bazaar Economy to a Market Economy -- 10 Conclusion -- 8. Doing Business by the Grace of the Shogun: Strategies, Trade Negotiations, and Cross-cultural -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nagasaki and the Dutch in Global Commodity Chains -- 3 Rules of Engagement -- 4 A New Hope for the Dutch-Japanese Trade, ca. 1741-1745 -- 5 The Japanese Empire Strikes Back, ca. 1747-1752 -- 6 Return of Cooperation, ca. 1752-1758 -- 7 Conclusion -- 9. Hindu Mercantile Culture and Practices in Goa, 1750-1818.

1 'Eating from the Same Bowl': The Centrality of Family in Hindu Mercantile Culture -- 2 Central but not Hegemonic: Individual Trade within the Bounds of the Family -- 3 'Imitating their Fervour': The Role of Kinship and Lineages of Service in Hindu Mercantile Involvement in Colonial Governance and Administration -- 4 Conclusion -- 10. The 'Way of the Merchant' in Late Imperial China -- 1 Merchants, Officials, and Social Differences -- 2 Merchant Sources of Capital -- 3 Merchants' Security and Market Access -- 4 Merchants and the State -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Part 3. The Euro-Atlantic World -- 11. Apprentices, Sojourners, Expatriates: Southern German Merchants in European Cities, c.1450-1650 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Apprentices -- 3 Sojourners -- 4 Expatriates -- 5 Conclusion -- 12. Merchant Culture: Holbein's Triumphs -- 1 History of the Paintings -- 2 The Tradition of Triumphs -- 3 Classical Background -- 4 Economic and Legal Context -- 5 The Triumph of Poverty -- 6 The Triumph of Riches -- 7 Conclusions -- 13. Doing Business with One's Sovereign: Merchant-Banking and Portfolio Management in Habsburg -- 1 Government Contracts at the Centre of the Portfolio -- 2 Public Debt -- 3 Private Overseas Trade -- 4 Ship-Owning -- 5 Real Estate and Manufacturing -- 6 Credit and Capital Investments -- 7 Conclusion -- 14. Religious Freedom and Institutions in Pre-modern Markets: Is Italy's Case a Guide? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Perspectives on Religious Freedom, Economy and Institutions -- 3 'Supposed to go Wandering off Straggling like the Jews' -- 4 Something to Hide -- 5 Freedom or Agency? -- 6 Conclusions -- Index.