[P2P-F] Fwd: IHR (London) economic history seminar (Fri 18 Dec) The power of the "commoners": informal patterns of Global Empire building in the First Global Age

[Michel Bauwens]

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> 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
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> The sixth and final session of autumn term is this week Friday 18 December
> 1700 London time using the Zoom online platform.
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> Topic: The power of the "commoners": informal patterns of Global Empire
> building in the First Global Age
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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,
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> https://www.history.ac.uk/events/power-commoners-informal-patterns-global-empire-building-first-global-agethe-power-commoners
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> 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
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> https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/economic-and-social-history-early-modern-world
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