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Commercial Cosmopolitanism? - Cross-Cultural Objects, Spaces, and Institutions in the Early Modern World (Paperback)
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Commercial Cosmopolitanism? - Cross-Cultural Objects, Spaces, and Institutions in the Early Modern World (Paperback)
Series: Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850
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This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan
practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the
early modern period. Cosmopolitanism is not only a philosophical
ideal: for many centuries it has also been an everyday practice
across the globe. The early modern era saw hitherto unprecedented
levels of economic interconnectedness. States, societies, and
individuals reacted with a mixture of commercial idealism and
commercial anxiety, seeking at once to exploit new opportunities
for growth whilst limiting its disruptive effects. In highlighting
the range of commercial cosmopolitan practices that grew out of
early modern globalisation, the book demonstrates that it provided
robust alternatives to the universalising western imperial model of
the later period. Deploying a number of interdisciplinary
methodologies, the kind of 'methodological cosmopolitanism' that
Ulrich Beck has called for, chapters provide agency-centred
evaluations of the risks and opportunities inherent in the
ambiguous role of the cosmopolitan, who, often playing on and
mobilising a number of identities, operated in between and outside
of different established legal, social, and cultural systems. The
book will be important reading for students and scholars working at
the intersection of economic, global, and cultural history.
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