Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond

Chapter 1 Concepts and Viewpoints in Early Modern Iberian Imperial History and the Globalization of Historiographies

Chapter 2 Art in Republics: Venice and the Netherlands

Chapter 3 Watchtowers in the Eighteenth-Century Philippines: Material Representations of Colonial State Power

Chapter 4 Piracy and Local Alliances in an Empire of Archipelagoes

Chapter 5 The Phoenix and the Eagle: Catalan Political Economy and the Habsburg Monarchy of Charles III/VI

Chapter 6 “When a Snake Is Cut into Pieces”: Austria’s Imperial Relations and the Downfall of Spain’s First Minister Ensenada in 1754

Chapter 7 Monopoly Claims and Moral Economy: Extralegal Practice in British Global and Local Trade c. 1660–1800

Chapter 8 Troublemakers in a State-Run Enterprise: Conflict Management and the Limits of Social Disciplining in the Königliches Lagerhaus Berlin, c. 1720–1760

Chapter 9 All Roads Lead to Mexico? The Postal Network of Late Colonial New Spain as an Integrated Communication Space

Chapter 10 A Parable and Ancient Fables: Shaping the Governance of Mining Activities and the Silver Trade in Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century New Spain

Chapter 11 Administration of Mining, Science, and Technology in Europe in the Age of American Silver (1550–1700)

Chapter 12 The Peso or the Marsilie —The Standard Currency Unit of the Armenian New Julfa Merchants?

Chapter 13 Foreign Merchants and the Introduction of New Hot Beverages in the Prince-Bishoprics of Münster and Paderborn During the Long Eighteenth Century

Chapter 14 Lighter and Brighter: Indian Cottons in Brussels in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 15 Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond—Critical Remarks on Old Concepts