Trading at the Edge of Empires

Francesco Carletti's World, c. 1600

AvBrian Brege,Paula Findlen

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Del 9 i serien I Tatti Research Series

376 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

In narrating his circumnavigation of the world at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Florentine Francesco Carletti became the first European merchant to leave an account of travel on existing commercial routes. A repentant ex-slave trader and smuggler turned dealer in Chinese goods, Carletti travelled “at the edge of empires,” providing a unique perspective on the promise and peril of a connected globe. With his long stays in Lima, Mexico City, Manila, Nagasaki, Macao, and Goa, as well as travels across the Americas, the Pacific, and Asia, Carletti documents a changing world in which European powers and traders interacted and often clashed with other empires and polities. Trading at the Edge of Empires brings together 24 scholars to situate and unpack how Carletti’s travels illuminate our understanding of trade, slavery, empire, religion, language, ethnography, cartography, cosmography, and material culture in the early modern world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-14
Mått:171 x 241 x 38 mm
Vikt:1 356 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:I Tatti Research Series
Antal sidor:500
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674296183

Utforska kategorier

Renässansen inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Brian Brege is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. His book Tuscany in the Age of Empire won the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize in History, Society, and Politics. Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History at Stanford University and the author of Possessing Nature and co-editor of Merchants and Marvels. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she was awarded the 2016 Premio Galileo Galilei. Luca Molà is Associate Professor of History at the University of Warwick, the Director of Warwick in Venice, and was Chair in the Early Modern History of Europe at the European University Institute, Fiesole. Giorgio Riello is Chair of Early Modern Global History at the European University Institute, Fiesole, and Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick.

Recensioner i media

It seems inexplicable that Trading at the Edge of Empires—a project of Harvard’s Villa I Tatti—is (apparently) the first volume in English (other than translations of the work itself) on this fascinating story. This book… is a reminder of how many different nationalities were in Asia just three decades into the start of the annual voyages between Acapulco and Manila and how knitted together the world already was.