Merchant Cultures: A Global Approach to Spaces, Representations and Worlds of Trade, 1500-1800 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004506558)

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 Harberl?n, Francisco Bethencourt, Edgar Pereira, and Germano Maifreda.

Author: C疸ia a. P. Antunes
ISBN-10: 9004506551
ISBN-13: 9789004506558
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 02/03/2022
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover