Beyond Empires ― Global, Self-organizing, Cross-imperial Networks 1500-1800

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.

Catia Antunes, PhD (2004), Leiden University, is Associate Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She is the author ofGlobalization in the Early Modern Period (2004), with Francesca Trivellato and Leor Halevi (eds.),Religion and Trade (2014) and with Jos Gommans (eds.), Exploring the Dutch Empire (2015). She has been awarded a VIDI-NWO grant, a European Research Council Starting Grant and is part of a Marie Curie ITN Network (ForSeaDiscovery).Amelia Polonia, PhDC (2000), University of Porto, is Associate Professor of Portuguese Overseas Expansion at the Univerity of Porto, Portugal. She is Vice-President of the International Maritime Econonic History Association and has been Principal Investigator of Hisportos (POCTI/HAR/36417/2000) and DynCoopNet (a ESF-TECT INCORE project). She is the author ofA Expansao Ultramarina numa perspectiva local. O porto de Vila do Conde no seculo XVI (2007);The environmental impacts of the historical uses of the seas in the First Global Age [http://www.eolss.net] (2014), and co-editor ofMaritime History as Global History (2011), with Maria Fusaro and Seaports in the First Global Age ,1500-1800. Portuguese Agents, Networks and Interactions (forthcoming), with Catia Antunes.