Commercial Cosmopolitanism?

Felicia Gottmann is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University, Newcastle. She is the author of Global Trade, Smuggling, and the Making of Economic Liberalism: Asian Textiles in France 1680-1760 (2016) and, with Maxine Berg et al. editor of Goods from the East, 1600-1800: trading Eurasia (2015). She held Fellowships at the Universities of Harvard, Warwick, Dundee, and Oxford, and is PI of the UKRI-funded Future Leaders Fellowship Project ‘Migration, Adaptation, Innovation 1500–1800’.

Introduction: Commercial Cosmopolitanism? Transcultural Actors, Objects, Spaces, and Practices in the Early Modern World Part 1: Cosmopolitan Spaces, Objects, and Actors 1. Controlling the Golden Geese: Canton, Nagasaki and the Limits of Hybridity 2. Trouble in the Contact Zone: Jeremias van Vliet in seventeenth-century Ayutthaya 3. Chinese Commercial Cosmopolitanism in the Eighteenth-Century Mekong River Delta: The Case of Mạc Thiên Tứ 4. Money Talks: Confessions of a Disgraced Cosmopolitan Coin of the 1640s 5. ‘This Whole Business Should Be Kept Very Secret’: The English Tobacco Workhouses in Moscow 6. Goods from the Sea Countries: Material Cosmopolitanism in Atlantic West Africa 7. From the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic: The Nineteenth-Century Commercial Ventures of Oman-Zanzibar Part 2: Institutions, Practices, and Agents 8. Hats, Furs and Indigenous Traders in a Global Trade 9. The Social Networks of Cosmopolitan Fraudsters: The Prussian Bengal Company as a Transnational Corporation 10. Quasi-cosmopolitanism: French Directors in Ouidah and Pondicherry (1674-1746) 11. Commercial Cosmopolitanism? The Case of the Firm De Bruijn & Cloots (Lisbon) in the 18th century 12. 'The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Ottoman Algiers in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 13. Making Ireland Poor: Poverty, Trade and Sectarianism in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic