Early Modern Overseas Careers

Igor Chabrowski, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska (eds)

Early Modern Overseas Careers

East-Central Europeans as Jesuit Missionaries and Dutch East India Employees

In the early modern period, two European networks, the Society of Jesus and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) spanned the globe and contributed to its multifaceted globalization. This book focuses on the members of the former, Jesuit missionaries, and the employees of the VOC originating from Central and Eastern Europe. The well-chosen case studies examine the group characteristics, career influences, and narratives of these Central Eastern Europeans. They explore the question of why subjects of Polish kings, Transylvanian princes, or Habsburg emperors dreamed of venturing overseas with the colonial merchants or aspired to work as missionaries in China and Japan.

The book examines the complexities of this early modern globalization: its scope, limits, importance, social, ethnic, and political ramifications. It researches how these networks reached out to the region of Central and Eastern Europe. The authors argue that the region was hardly considered peripheral from the perspective of Rome (and the Jesuits) or the Netherlands (and the colonial traders). They do, however, explore whether there were "glass ceilings," or limits of reach within the two networks for individuals from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the former Kingdom of Hungary.
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Editors

Igor Chabrowski

Igor Iwo Chabrowski is an associate professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. Igor’s research concentrates on the late Qing and modern Chinese history, history of Southeast Asia and Overseas Chinese, global history, and global communism.

Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska

Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska is an assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw and an investigator in the ERC funded project The Diplomacy of Small States in Early Modern South-eastern Europe (HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest). She has a background in Early Modern history and Ottoman studies, with a specific focus on the Early Modern Crimean Khanate and the Northern Caucasus.
Title
Early Modern Overseas Careers
Subtitle
East-Central Europeans as Jesuit Missionaries and Dutch East India Employees
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€ 121,99
ISBN
9789633868836
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Number of pages
236
Language
English
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.5117/9789633868836
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15.6 x 23.4 cm
Series
Global Easts
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Colonial Studies
International Relations
Religion and Theology
Discipline
Academic - History and Politics
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Table of Contents
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Global Easts: Series Introduction - Jie-Hyun Lim
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Igor Iwo Chabrowski and Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska
Part I. Archives, Communication, and Identities
Dutch East India Company (VOC): Foundation, Administration, Territories, and Archives - Rafal Szmytka
Jesuit Strategy of Communication and Its Mirror: The Order’s Roman Archives - Robert Danieluk
Part II. Group Identities
Polish-Lithuanian Jesuits Searching for a Missionary Field in the Orient, 1610-1723 - Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska
Inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the VOC, 1620-1700 - Rafal Szmytka
A Hungarian Employee of the VOC: The Adventures of András Jelky - Gábor Pusztai
Jesuit Petitioners for the Indies from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern Period - Elisa Frei
Part III. Experience of the Mission
Jesuit Procurators, Traveling between China and Europe, and Dutch East India Employees during the Turbulent Period from the 1640s to the 1680s - Frederik Vermote
A Jesuit among the Kalmyks: An Example of Proto-Ethnography by the Society of Jesus in the Eighteenth Century - Paul Shore
A Great Longing for India vs. the Reality of the Jesuits from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: The Case of Paulus Kostanecki - Monika Miazek-Meczynska
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