Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond

Veronika Hyden-Hanscho is Research Associate at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She holds the prestigious Elise-Richter Fellowship awarded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Werner Stangl is a lecturer of Economic History at the University of Graz, Austria, and from September 2022 works for CNRS-CREDA, Ile de France, within the project ANR-TopUrbi at EHESS. His main areas of research are colonial Spanish America, historical geography and digital humanities. 

Ideas and Identity.- Concepts and Viewpoints in Early Modern Iberian Imperial History and the Globalization of Historiographies.- Watchtowers in the Eighteenth-Century Philippines. Material Representations of Colonial State Power.- Agents of Modernities.- Piracy and Local Alliances in an Empire of Archipelagoes.- The Phoenix and the Eagle. Catalan Political Economy and the Habsburg Monarchy of Charles VI.- “When a Snake is Cut into Pieces:” Austria’s Imperial Relations and the Downfall of Spain’s First Minister Ensenada in 1754.- Monopoly Claims and Moral Economy: Extralegal Practice in British Global and Local Trade c. 1660-1800.- Formation of State Institutions.- Troublemakers in a State-Run Enterprise. Conflict Management and the Limits of Social Disciplining in the Königliches Lagerhaus Berlin, c. 1720–1760.- All Roads Lead to Mexico? The Postal Network of Late Colonial New Spain as an Integrated Communication Space.- A Parable and Ancient Fables: Shaping the Governance of Mining Activities and the Silver Trade in Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century New Spain.- Administration of Mining, Science, and Technology in Europe in the Age of American Silver (1550–1700).- Glocal Economies.- The Peso or the Marsilie – the Standard Currency Unit of the Armenian New Julfa Merchants?.- Foreign Merchants and the Introduction of New Hot Beverages in the Prince-Bishoprics of Münster and Paderborn during the long Eighteenth Century.- Lighter and Brighter: Indian Cottons in Brussels in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century.- Conclusion.- Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond — Critical Remarks on Old Concepts.