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Networks of Empire - Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company (Paperback)
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Networks of Empire - Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Comparative World History
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This book argues that the Dutch East India Company empire
manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated
spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was
effectively created and maintained but always partial and
contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early modern empires
were comprised of durable networks of trade, administration,
settlement, legality, and migration whose regional circuits and
territorially and institutionally based nodes of regulatory power
operated not only on land and sea but discursively as well. Rights
of sovereignty were granted to the company by the States General in
the United Provinces. Company directors in Europe administered the
exercise of sovereignty by company servants in its chartered
domain. The empire developed in dynamic response to challenges
waged by individuals and other sovereign entities operating within
the Indian Ocean grid. By closely examining the Dutch East India
Company's network of forced migration this book explains how
empires are constituted through the creation, management,
contestation, devolution and reconstruction of these multiple and
intersecting fields of partial sovereignty.
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