123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Weaving the Webs of Empire: Connections and Confrontations in the Early Modern World

Weaving the Webs of Empire: Connections and Confrontations in the Early Modern World

Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction

Friday, January 2, 2009: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM

Midtown Suite (Hilton New York)

Chair:

Lauren A. Benton, New York University

Papers:

Networking across Empires: Dutch, Sephardim, and Portuguese Business and Commercial Webs for the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1580–1674
Filipa Da Silva, Leiden University

Siamese Treasure, Mexican Merchants, and Castilian Aristocrats: A Case Study of Seventeenth-Century Imperial Legal Entanglement
Fabio T. Lopez-Lazaro, University of Calgary

Gallivanting Governors and Errant Magistrates: Networks of Power in Brazil and Portuguese Asia
Erik L. Myrup, University of Kentucky

Cape Town, Mauritius, Batavia, and Manila in the Indo-Pacific World, 1793–1815
James R. Fichter, Lingnan University

Comment:

Alison F. Games, Georgetown University

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