Call for papers
Building empires in Modern Ages: Business, politics, family and global relations
Naira Maria Motta Bezerra (PPGH/UFF)
Tomás Pinto de Albuquerque (CSG/GHES, ISEG - U. de Lisboa)
Fernand Braudel sought to study capitalism through relations between individuals, groups and states over time (Braudel, 1967). More recently, Anthony Molho and Diogo Ramada Curto brought this premise together at the European University Institute (EUI), reinterpreting this monumental work based on the study relations between traders in long distance using network analysis (Short and Molho, 2002). As known, this is a method with a long tradition, going back to its origins since at least the first half of the 20th century using the principles of Gestalt.
In a very simple way, Gestalt is an approach that seeks to understand the relationship between humans and the environments in which they live: how they impact and are impacted by it. In the field of History, this analysis served as a methodology to understand the subjects within the networks. They were established based on family, religious ties, patronage, political or economic, and also control mechanisms, formal or informal, that allowed the development of these relationships in the long distance, in different political, economic, social and cultural universes.
When we refer to agents, we are not just referring to merchants or royal officials (governors, magistrates, military, bishops, etc.), but all those who, in one way or another, were or could be part of a network, be it political, economic, religious or family.
In recent years, with the approaches brought by Global History, the studies of networks have been renewed in importance, as debates such as Center/Periphery, introduced by Immanuel Wallerstein (1974), capitalism and slavery (Willians, 1944) and the Global History's own methodological proposals (André Gunder Frank, 1998; Kenneth Pomeranz, 2013; Sebastian Conrad, 2016) were resumed.
What we seek to understand is how these relationships were established and were themselves the necessary frame for the construction of empires, at the same time that they conveyed relations on a global scale, articulating spaces as diverse as Europe, America, Asia or Africa.
Our dossier open call for researchers who are interested in the themes of intra-imperial relations, in its institutional, political, economic scope; or who are interested in the subject of the subjects or institutions and their networks. Also those who, in dialogue more directly with Global History, seek to analyze relationships not only between different parts of the same empire, but between different empires in the modern age (Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, Dutch or Danish). The temporal scope is between the 17th and 18th centuries. To those who have interest, the publication guidelines are specified in the guidelines for authors. Contributions must be sent exclusively via the OJS system.
Deadline for submission: March 20, 2021 (12:00 am Brasília time, UTC / GMT -03: 00)
