Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company

by Kerry Ward

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107404738
• ISBN13: 9781107404731
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"