Explorations in History and Globalization

Cátia Antunes is Associate Professor of Economic and Social History at Leiden University. She is the author of Globalisation in the Early Modern Period (2004) and co-editor with Francesca Trivellato and Leor Haveli of Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History 1000-1900 (2014) and with Jos Gommans of Exploring the Dutch Empire: Agents, Networks and Institutions (2015). Karwan Fatah-Black is Assistant Professor of Social and Economic History at Leiden University. In 2015 he was awarded the prestigious VENI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. He is co-editor of the Journal of Global Slavery, the journal of Suriname and Caribbean studies OSO, and the Zeven Provinciën book series on the early modern Netherlands. He is the author of White Lies and Black Markets: Evading Metropolitan Authority in Colonial Suriname, 1650-1800 (2015).

List of contributors. List of maps. List of figures. List of tables. Introduction Catia Antunes and Karwan Fatah-Black Part 1: Exchanges and Movements 1. Ecological exchanges and environmental history Chris Gratien 2. Connecting the world: migration and globalization in the second millennium Leo Lucassen 3. Redirecting global labor history? Matthias van Rossum 4. Trading networks in global history Claude Markovits 5. Missionary movements and the expansion of Islam, Buddhism and Christianity, 1400-2000 Anne B. McGinness 6. Social and political movements: experiments in anti-Imperialist mobilization Carolien Stolte Part 2: Continuities and Processes 7. Urban systems and urbanization in world history Wim Blockmans and Marjolein 't Hart 8. Exclusions: a concept in global history Giacomo Todeschini 9. States: a subject in global history Peer Vries 10. Empire as a frame work for research Carla Rahn Phillips 11. 'Democratic' institutions and the birth of capitalism, science, and modern 'global' culture Jeffrey Fynn-Paul 12. Imperial globalizations Miguel Jerónimo Bandeira 13. Globalization, growth and inequality Pedro Lains and Ester G. Silva. Index.