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Preliminary Material /Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia -- Introduction /Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia -- The Evolution of Norms in Trade and Financial Networks in the First Global Age: The Case of the Simon Ruiz's Network /Ana Sofia Ribeiro -- Trans-Imperial and Cross-Cultural Networks for the Slave Trade, 1580s–1800s /Filipa Ribeiro da Silva -- Dutch and English Approaches to Cross-Cultural Trade in Mughal India and the Problem of Trust, 1600–1630 /Guido van Meersbergen -- 'The Japanese Connection': Self-Organized Smuggling Networks in Nagasaki circa 1666–1742 /Jurre Knoest -- The Pirate Round: Globalized Sea Robbery and Self-Organizing Trans-Maritime Networks around 1700 /Michael Kempe -- Merchant Cooperation in Society and State: A Case Study in the Hispanic Monarchy /Ana Crespo Solana -- In the Shadow of the Companies: Empires of Trade in the Orient and Informal Entrepreneurship /Chris Nierstrasz -- Smuggling for Survival: Self-Organized, Cross-Imperial Colony Building in Essequibo and Demerara, 1746–1796 /Bram Hoonhout -- Trading with Asia without a Colonial Empire in Asia: Swedish Merchant Networks and Chartered Company Trade, 1760–1790 /Leos Müller -- Was Warfare Necessary for the Functioning of Eighteenth-Century Colonial Systems? Some Reflections on the Necessity of Cross-Imperial and Foreign Trade in the French Case /Silvia Marzagalli -- Epilogue /Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia -- Bibliography /Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia -- Index /Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia.

Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized cooperative networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state.--

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