Date: 2022
Type: Working Paper
From Florence to Goa and beyond : essays in early modern global history
Working Paper, EUI HEC, 2022/01
KULKE, Tilmann, VICENTE MARTÍN, Irene María (editor/s), KULKE, Tilmann, VICENTE MARTÍN, Irene María, From Florence to Goa and beyond : essays in early modern global history, EUI HEC, 2022/01 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/73769
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This volume is dedicated to Jorge Flores: scholar, supervisor, esteemed colleague, and friend. Twenty-three authors, close friends and colleagues at and outside the European University Institute, as well as his former and current doctoral students, have come together here to pay tribute to Flores’ highly productive and constantly supportive period at the EUI. The result is an anthology in which the authors present their current research in essay form while also reflecting thematically and methodologically on the fascinating field of premodern global history. The reader will come to realize that, after an exuberant but difficult youth of more than two decades, global history as a perspective on our common past is by no means at an end or at a standstill; rather, this field is in constant motion, undergoing criticism and encouragement to become an indispensable part of our common historical and academic work. As Sanjay Subrahmanyam notes in his introduction to this study, Flores is one of the “leading figures in the study of the early modern Iberian world.” And so he, too, will have a significant part to play in the development of pre-modern global history. It will be a pleasure and an honour for all of us to continue to collaborate, debate, and exchange with him, moving beyond traditional frameworks for analyzing the past in terms of national categories and methodological and institutional nationalisms.
Table of Contents:
-- Prelude : Tilmann Kulke and Irene María Vicente Martín -- Introduction : from Lisbon to Florence, via south Asia : The making of an Iberian world historian : Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- PART I General Approaches to Global History -- About time : the problem of periodisation in early modern global history : Mikko Toivanen -- Spatial thinking and verticality in global history : Luca Scholz -- Fragmenting the global : globes and empires in early modern Europe : Martin Vailly -- Subverting the French global sciences : notes on an historiographical shift : Stéphane Van Damme -- PART II Circulations of People and Connections across the Globe -- Social networks and institutions in the rise and 'crisis' of the iberian world empires : Bartolomé Yun Casalilla -- Between the Indian Ocean and the Andean Mountains : global history, the slave trade and capitalism at work : J. Bohorquez -- Regrets, i’ve had a few: the global life of Giovanni Francesco Giustiani, Venetian Renegade : Giancarlo Casale -- Le dîner des ambassadeurs: micro-global comparisons and the Franco-Siamese embassies of 1685-88 : Giorgio Riello -- PART III The transmission of knowledge and information (materials, sources and translations) -- Georgian imaginations: Marco Polo variations on the Kingdom in the Caucasus : Alicia Lohmann and Thomas Ertl -- Antiquitas Graeco-Romana : De quelques vignettes antiquisantes dans les albums moghols : Corinne Lefèvre -- The Chīnī Khāna: Chinese porcelain versus Florentine Pietra : Dura in Imperial Mughal collections and display : Ebba Koch -- Erekle II. (1720-1798) goes global: Zwischen Aufklärung, Wissenstransfer und strukturellen Reformen in Georgien ab den 1750er Jahren : Nino Doborjginidze and Tilmann Kulke -- The treaty of Ferdinand the Catholic and the city of ALGIERS: A double-edged weapon in the Imperial struggle for the Maghreb : José Miguel Escribano Páez -- From Smyrna to Sénitot : translating the Ottoman Empire from a small place in France : Ann Thomson -- Recounting the restoration of Salvador da Bahia (1625): the writing of an early modern global episode : Irene María Vicente Martín -- Miserable Indians and exemplary Caciques: the judicial narratives of Indigenous lords from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries : Elfie Guyau -- PART IV Science, beliefs and practices -- The Jesuit colleges in early modern Spanish America : some considerations for research : Pablo Abascal Sherwell Raull -- Foreigners in the Princely states and British India : recruitment conditions and a typology of outsider involvement : Moritz von Brescius -- Scribal practices in natural history : the archive of Philibert de Commerson (1727-1773) : José Beltrán -- Tamerlane and Christ among eighteenth- Century Indios : Mark Dizon -- CLOSURE -- Current historiographical research in early modern global history : an interview with Jorge Flores
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/73769
ISSN: 1725-6720
Series/Number: EUI HEC; 2022/01
Publisher: European University Institute