Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World – serie
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Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650
Reading Debates over Risk and Reward
Häftad, 2025
724 kr
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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
Häftad, 2025
703 kr
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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 …
Missionary Enchantment in South Asia, 16th-18th Centuries
Catholic Histories and Fictions
Häftad, 2026
703 kr
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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 …
Swedish Monarchy and the Copper Trade
The Copper Company, the Deposit System, and the Amsterdam Market, 1600-1640
Häftad, 2025
724 kr
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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 …
Cultural Translation of Language
Multilingual Practices and Metalinguistic Reflection in the Jesuit Mission in Mexico (1670-1770)
Inbunden, 2027
2540 kr
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The Cultural Translation of Language examines how language itself became an object of cultural translation in colonial Mexico. Focusing on multilingual encounters in missionary contexts, it asks how speech, language, and communication were perceived, named, compared, and explained.The book focuses …
Swedish Monarchy and the Copper Trade
The Copper Company, the Deposit System, and the Amsterdam Market, 1600-1640
Inbunden, 2024
2188 kr
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This is the story of Gustav II Adolf's efforts to improve efficiencies at the Stora Kopparberg, the largest copper mine in Europe and control the marketing of its bounty.
Missionary Enchantment in South Asia, 16th-18th Centuries
Catholic Histories and Fictions
Inbunden, 2025
2502 kr
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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 …
Jesuit Missionary Cartography of the Upper Amazon, 1689 to 1789
Inbunden, 2024
2502 kr
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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 …
Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650
Reading Debates over Risk and Reward
Inbunden, 2024
2188 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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.
