1st Edition
Early Modern Overseas Careers East-Central Europeans as Jesuit Missionaries and Dutch East India Employees
Global Easts: Series Introduction
Jie-Hyun Lim
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Igor Iwo Chabrowski and Natalia Krolikowska-Jedlińska
Part I. Archives, Communication, and Identities
Dutch East India Company (VOC): Foundation, Administration, Territories, and Archives
Rafał Szmytka
Jesuit Strategy of Communication and Its Mirror: The Order’s Roman Archives
Robert Danieluk
Part II. Group Identities
Polish-Lithuanian Jesuits Searching for a Missionary Field in the Orient, 1610-1723
Natalia Krolikowska-Jedlińka
Inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the VOC, 1620-1700
RafałSzmytka
A Hungarian Employee of the VOC: The Adventures of Andras Jelky
Gabor Pusztai
Jesuit Petitioners for the Indies from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern Period
Elisa Frei
Part III. Experience of the Mission
Jesuit Procurators, Traveling between China and Europe, and Dutch East India Employees during the Turbulent Period from the 1640s to the 1680s
Frederik Vermote
A Jesuit among the Kalmyks: An Example of Proto-Ethnography by the Society of Jesus in the Eighteenth Century
Paul Shore
A Great Longing for India vs. the Reality of the Jesuits from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: The Case of Paulus Kostanecki
Monika Miazek-Męczyńska
Authors
Index
Biography
Igor Iwo Chabrowski is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. He is a specialist of Modern Chinese History.
Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. She has a background in Early Modern history and Ottoman studies, with a specific focus on the Early Modern Crimean Khanate and the Northern Caucasus.
