- > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: EH.net <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 07:39 > Subject: IHR (London) economic history seminar (Fri 18 Dec) The power of > the "commoners": informal patterns of Global Empire building in the First > Global Age > > > > The sixth and final session of autumn term is this week Friday 18 December > 1700 London time using the Zoom online platform. > > Topic: The power of the "commoners": informal patterns of Global Empire > building in the First Global Age > > Speaker: Amélia Polónia (University of Porto) > Amélia Polónia is a Professor at the Department of History, Political and > International Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. > She is currently the scientific coordinator of the Intersdisciplinary > Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory (CITCEM - UP). > > Her scientific interests include social and economic networks in the Early > Modern Age. Seaports history, migrations, transfers and flows between > different continents and oceans, informal mechanisms of empire building, > women as brokers and go-betweens in overseas empires and the environmental > implications of European colonization are key-subjects of her current > research. > > Summary: > For a long time, European historiography has been associating empire > building processes almost exclusively with state policies and institutions. > Historical outcomes of the early modern empires tended to be focused > predominantly on central power strategies and imperial rivalries, > monopolies, warfare strategies and political disputes between European > colonisers. This ended up by feeding a nationalist and Eurocentric analysis > of empire building which cannot fully explain the rise of a Global Age in > the Early Modern Period. It cannot explain the world-wide scale of > communications, the building of multicultural societies, or even the global > transfers between oceans and continents. > > This brings up a new set of research questions and hypotheses which many > researchers in colonial studies are beginning to ask. Could it be that the > sustainability of empires, in particular the Portuguese multicontinental > overseas empire, are based on the commoners and their entrepreneurial > initiatives as much as on central powers policies, military and commercial > strategies? Could it be that European empires were also, and maybe even > predominantly, sustained by cooperative patterns and agent-based networks? > If this turned out to be true, historians would have to leave aside the > strict focus on the structures, on the systems, on the State, and on the > macro level. Rather, future research would have to concentrate its > attention on individuals and their web of connections. > > Registration: > This event is free to all to attend but booking is required. To register, > sign up via the IHR webpage for this specific session, > > > https://www.history.ac.uk/events/power-commoners-informal-patterns-global-empire-building-first-global-agethe-power-commoners > > and click on the "Book now" icon directly below the title of the talk. You > will then be transferred to an IHR online registration form. When you have > filled in a few details on the form and submitted it, you will quickly be > emailed the relevant Zoom meeting ID and password. The event will run > between 5pm and 7pm; the event's virtual waiting room will be open from > 4:30pm on the day, with admittance at 5pm > > > > > https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/economic-and-social-history-early-modern-world > ------------------------------ > > You are receiving this email upon request. If you no longer wish to > receive this email click here > <https://eh.net/?na=u&nk=5537-81aa1b51d6&nek=2690> to unsubscribe. To > edit your subscription preferences click here > <https://eh.net/?na=p&nk=5537-81aa1b51d6>. > > Economic History Association, Department of Economics, University of > Wisconsin La Crosse, 1725 State St., La Crosse WI 54601 > > > -- > *Rasigan Maharajh, PhD.* > > Professor Extraordinary: *Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and > Technology*, Stellenbosch University, RSA. > Node Head: Department of Science and Technology and National Research > Foundation *Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, > Technology and Innovation Policy*, RSA. > Chief Director: *Institute for Economic Research on Innovation*, Tshwane > University of Technology, RSA. > Associate Research Fellow: *Tellus Institute*, Boston, USA; and > Chairperson: Southern Africa Node of the *Millennium Project*, RSA. > > Postal Address: 159 Nana Sita Street, Pretoria CBD, 0002, Tshwane, > Gauteng, South Africa > Phone: +27 12 3823073 > www0.sun.ac.za/scistip > www.ieri.org.za > www.tellus.org > www.sampnode.org.za > > >
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