The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550– 1750 Global Economic History Series Series Editors Maarten Prak (Utrecht University) Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University) Editorial Board Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge) Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University) Christine Moll- Murata (Ruhr- Universität Bochum) Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Wageningen University) Şevket Pamuk (Boğazici University, Istanbul) Kenneth L. Pomeranz (University of Chicago) Tirthankar Roy (London School of Economics and Political Science) Peer H.H. Vries (University of Vienna) volume 16 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/ gehs The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550– 1750 Edited by William A. Pettigrew and David Veevers LEIDEN | BOSTON This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Cover illustration: Kalamkari Hanging with Figures in an Architectural Setting, ca. 1640–50, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, nos. MMA 20.79. URL: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/447118. The figures in this cotton panel were once part of a larger hanging of men and women displayed in Armenian, Indian, Persian and European fashion, originating in the Deccan. They were likely produced either for the Golcondan court or by consumers for circulation and display in India or Europe. They are a striking example of the confluence of cosmopolitan cultural expression prevalent in the Deccan at the time. 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Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 William A. Pettigrew and David Veevers Part 1 Aspects of the English Corporation 1 Political Economy 43 William A. Pettigrew 2 Migration 68 Michael D. Bennett 3 Networks 96 Aske Laursen Brock 4 Literature 116 Liam D. Haydon 5 Religion 137 Haig Smith 6 Governance 163 Edmond J. Smith 7 Gender 187 David Veevers 8 Building 211 Emily Mann 9 Science 232 Anna Winterbottom vi Contents 10 Scholarship 255 Simon Mills Part 2 European Perspectives 11 Scandinavian 279 Lisa Hellman 12 French 290 Leonard Hodges 13 Iberia 301 Edgar Pereira 14 Dutch 317 Chris Nierstrasz Index 327 Acknowledgements The Editors thank the Leverhulme Trust for supporting the research that un- derpins chapters written by Aske Laursen Brock, Liam Haydon, Emily Mann, Simon Mills, Edmond Smith and Haig Smith, William Pettigrew, and David Veevers. We also thank the Trust for providing the funds to make this an Open Access publication. Notes on Contributors William A. Pettigrew is Professor of History at Lancaster University. He was previously Reader in History at the University of Kent and Junior Research Fellow and Tutor in History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His first monograph, Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672– 1752 (2013) won the Jamestown Prize. He has authored numerous peer- reviewed articles and major edited volumes, and is currently writing a book on the role of trading companies in the formation of the English constitution in the seventeenth century. From 2013–2018 he led a Leverhulme Trust funded project on the global histories of English trading corporations. David Veevers holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London. He was previously Research Associate at the Uni- versity of Kent on a Leverhulme- funded project on the role of trading compa- nies in the seventeenth century. His first monograph, A Hundred Gates: Asia and the Transnational Origins of the British Empire, 1600– 1800 is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. He has published in the Journal of Global History and the Journal of Imperial Commonwealth History. Michael D. Bennett is completing his PhD in the Department of History at the University of Shef- field. His research focuses on the formation of English labour regimes in the seventeenth century. He has published in the Journal of Historical Association. Aske Laursen Brock holds the Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Aalborg University, Denmark. He was previously Research Fellow at the University of Kent on a five year Leverhulme- funded project exploring the role of trading companies in the seventeenth century, on which topic he also completed his PhD through an analysis of company directors. He is co- editor of Trading Companies and Travel Literature, 1600– 1900, which will be published with Routledge in 2019. Liam D. Haydon was Research Associate at the University of Kent on a five year Leverhulme- funded research project exploring the role of trading companies in the seven- teenth century. He completed his PhD at the University of Manchester on John Notes on Contributors ix Milton. His first monograph, Corporate Culture: National and Transnational Corporations in Seventeenth- Century Literature (2018) is published with Rout- ledge. He is also co- editor of the Bloomsbury History of Disability, forthcoming in 2019. Lisa Hellman holds a Postdoctoral Scholarship at Freie Universitat Berlin, funded by the Swedish Research Council. Previously, she was based at the University of Tokyo at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, following the completion of her PhD at Stockholm University. She has published in Itinerario and contributed to multiple edited volumes. Leonard Hodges is currently completing his PhD at King’s College, University of London. His research focuses on the French Compagnie Royale des Indes Orientales in the eighteenth century, and the ways in which the company intersected with the French state. Emily Mann is Lecturer in Early Modern Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She had pre- viously been Research Associate on a five year Leverhulme-funded research project at the University of Kent on the role of trading companies in the sev- enteenth century. She has contributed to multiple edited volumes, including Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places and Material Culture, 1600– 1850 (2016). Simon Mills is a Teaching Fellow at Newcastle University in the School of History, Classics and Archeology. He previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Kent, on a project which studied the chaplains of the English Levant Company. He has published widely on this topic and contributed to numerous edited volumes and journals. Chris Nierstrasz is a Lecturer at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Warwick. He has pub- lished two monographs, In the Shadow of the Company: The Dutch East India Company and its Servants in a Period of Decline, 1740– 1796 (2012), as well as Ri- valry for Trade in Tea and Textiles: The English and Dutch East India Companies, 1700– 1800 (2015). x Notes on Contributors Edgar Pereira is completing his PhD at the University of Leiden. His research focuses on the intersection of Portuguese public and private trading initiatives, which he has explored as part of the project ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires, 1500– 1750’. Edmond J. Smith is Presidential Academic Fellow in Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester. Previously he was Research Associate at the University of Kent on a Leverhulme-funded project on the role of trading companies in the seven- teenth century, following the completion of his PhD at the University of Cam- bridge. He has published widely in journals, including the