1st Edition
Early Modern Overseas Trade and Entrepreneurship Nordic Trading Companies in the Seventeenth Century
By Kaarle Wirta
Copyright 2020
216 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Drawing on an impressive range of archival material, this monograph delves into the careers of two businessmen who worked for Nordic chartered monopoly trading companies to illuminate individual entrepreneurship in the context of seventeenth-century long-distance trade.
The study spans the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, examining global entanglements through personal interactions and daily trading... Read more
- Introduction
- Formative Years of Overseas Entrepreneurship and Nordic Overseas Trade
- Entrepreneurship in the Company
- The Vulnerability of Being Connected
- Knowledge and Overseas Business
- The Sea Was a Violent Place to Work
- Conclusion
- Sources and Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kaarle Wirta is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Tampere University, Finland.
"A fundamental study on connections and contexts of two early modern trans-local, trans-regional and trans-continental business entrepreneurs in Europe, the Atlantic world and the Indian Ocean"
- Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
