Globalized Peripheries - 9781783274758

Globalized PeripheriesCentral Europe and the Atlantic World, 1680-1860 Author(s): Jutta Wimmler, Klaus Weber, Alexandra Gittermann, Anka Steffen, Anne Sophie Overkamp, Bernhard Struck, David K. Thomson, Friederike Gehrmann, Goeran Ryden, Josef Koestlbauer Format: Paperback Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: The Boydell Press ISBN-13: 9781783274758, 978-1783274758 Synopsis Globalized Peripheries examines the commodity flows and financial ties within Central and Eastern Europe in order to situate these regions as important contributors to Atlantic trade networks. The early modern Atlantic world, with its flows of bullion, of free and unfree labourers, of colonial produce and of manufactures from Europe and Asia, with mercantile networks and rent-seeking capital, has to date been described almost entirely as the preserve of the Western sea powers. More recent scholarship has rediscovered the dense entanglements with Central and Eastern Europe. Globalized Peripheries goes further by looking beyond slavery and American plantations. Contributions look at the trading practices and networks of merchants established in Central and Eastern Europe, investigate commodity flows between these regions and the Atlantic world, and explore the production of export commodities, two-way migration as well as financial ties. The volume uncovers new economic and financial connections between Prussia, the Habsburg Empire, Russia, as well as northern and western Germany with the Atlantic world. Its period coverage connects the end of the early modern world with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.