Cátia Antunes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5637995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cátia Antunes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cátia |
| FAMILY NAME | Antunes |
| SIGNATURE | ANTUNES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4343-029X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
History writing as an act of faith in humanity.’ An interview with Ben Teensma
An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula, 700–2000
This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the development of the old medieval kingdoms, it goes on to explore two countries, Portugal and Spain, which during the early modern period possessed vast empires and played an essential role in the global economic and political developments. It traces how and why both countries began to fall behind during the first stages of industr…
Trade and the Colonial Economies, 1500–1828
Economic historians have placed commercialization at the centre of Europe’s early modern capitalism, emphasizing the importance of domestic and international trade, shipbuilding and concomitant manufactures, the financial sector, and urbanization. As the Iberian polities extended geographically to Africa, Asia and the Americas during the early modern period, trade, whether domestic, international or colonial, had a critical effect upon economic d…
De Bruijn & Cloots of Lisbon: Insights into a Dutch Firm in the Exploitation of the South Atlantic, 1713–1727
This article examines the strategies and techniques used by foreign firms to encroach on the Portuguese Atlantic empire. It takes the Dutch firm De Bruijn & Cloots of Lisbon as a case study to analyse problems and solutions devised by foreign firms when expanding their trade operations to Brazilian ports. We analyse the variables that influenced their choice of agents and forms of agency, and the way in which problems of agency were mitigated. Ba…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Business of Empire in the Atlantic
This introduction to the special issue Business of Empire in the Atlantic contends that business organizations (partnerships and chartered or joint-stock companies), exploitative frameworks (free trade, monopolies, and royal prerogatives) and business practices coexisted in the Atlantic for over two hundred and fifty years. There was no linear development towards the best and most efficient business model, but rather the development of hybrid for…
Port Cities and Commodities: Luanda in the Early-Modern Period
This chapter examines the role of port cities in the construction of global commodity trades in the early-modern era, using the Angolan capital Luanda as a case study. It defines port cities by their urban functions rather than demographic stock, allowing comparison of cases from Africa and the Americas with better-known Eurasian examples. Based on a reading of current urban and maritime historical literature, the chapter explains how port cities…
Introduction to Volume 1
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400 to 1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of preindustrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand for free,…
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations: Migrations, 1400-1800
Volume I documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400–1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of pre-industrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand of free, forced and unfree labour, long and short distanc…
Conclusion: Towards a Multi-Centred Approach to Commodity History
This chapter builds on the Handbook contributions to propose a new approach to commodity history that seeks to sidestep the enduring pitfalls of core-periphery thinking. The editors recommend a deeper integration of south-south, north-north, and north-south commodity flows into historical narratives, enhancing an understanding of global relationships from non-Western viewpoints. The editors further suggest that historians take a more nuanced view…
The Dutch Republic and the Spanish Slave Trade, 1580-1690
This article investigates the reason why groups of merchants operating from the Dutch Republic, particularly from Amsterdam, decided to take part in the exploitation of the Spanish Empire, through a very particular type of activity, that of the slave trade. We argue that Amsterdam-based merchants were heavily engaged, through various organizational forms, in supplying Spanish American markets with enslaved Africans. This participation was rewarde…
Mobility and Displacement in and around the Mediterranean: An Introduction
Human, material and intellectual exchanges in the Mediterranean have developed continuously over time. Historiography has privileged the analysis of conjunctures and structures in which these permanent relationships have ensued. However, scholarship is still shy of viewing, analysing and questioning the human experience of mobilities and immobilities in the Mediterranean from the perspective of those who actually moved. Movement and displacement …
Early Modern Business Diplomacy: An Appraisal
define business diplomacy as "an approach to geopolitical and non-commercial risk management that is based on the practices and mindset of diplomats."1 In this definition, firms take "diplomat-like" actions in seeking to accommodate, avoid and manage external risks to the entrepreneurial activity itself. In this sense, the authors make a clear distinction between business diplomacy and current definitions of economic diplomacy, which can be summa…
Les pensées monétaires dans l'histoire: L'Europe, 1517–1776
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The Portuguese Maritime Empire: Global Nodes and Transnational Networks
Dutch-Portuguese Diplomatic Encounters, 1640-1703: Exchanges, Sovereignty and “World Peace”
This article traces the multiplex relationships established between Portuguese ambassadors, consuls and extraordinary envoys in the Dutch Republic between 1640 and 1703 with the Portuguese kingdom, the king, the Portuguese “Nation” in Amsterdam and the Dutch States General. In negotiating multiple contracts and treaties regarding “world peace,” these men determined the course of history not so much because they were bound by the service of a stat…
European shipbuilding and ship repairs outside Europe: Problems, questions and some hypotheses
This special issue explains how and why European maritime powers resorted to ship repair and shipbuilding overseas, and how these activities, in multiple ways, justify a re-evaluation of the global impact of shipbuilding worldwide and the influence it had in defining overseas empires. The explanation and further considerations in the core articles examining the Dutch experience of shipbuilding and ship repairs overseas, in both the Atlantic and I…
Going Bust: Some Reflections on Colonial Bankruptcies
While this special issue raises a significant number of questions, constraints have dictated that only some of these questions are actually answered. The pioneering work presented consequently remains a modest attempt to initiate a more general discussion about the causes and the social and economic consequences of business failure in the early modern period, particularly with regard to colonial enterprises
An Old Practitioner Still in Search of the métier d'historien Response to Peer Vries, “The Prospects of Global History: Personal Reflections of an Old Believer”
Peer Vries's eloquent review essay “The Prospects of Global History: Personal Reflections of an Old Believer” sees the chance to review The Prospect of Global History as an opportunity to champion Global History as a discipline and voice his concerns regarding what, in his view, have become possible abuses or deviancies in the practice of the discipline. His long-standing status as one of the founding fathers of the discipline and of its consecra…
Windows of global exchange: Dutch ports and the slave trade, 1600–1800
In 2008, Pierre Gervais contended that social and economic developments in the Atlantic were to be ascribed to an overwhelming European intervention in West Africa and the Americas. This article questions Gervais’s assumption by stressing how Europeans, West Africans and Americans – individuals and states – mutually influenced urban hierarchies and distributive hubs across three different continents, while arguing that these interactions and inte…
On Cosmopolitanism and Cross-Culturalism: An Enquiry into the Business Practices and Multiple Identities of the Portuguese Merchants of Amsterdam
Jeroen Puttevils, Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century
Jeroen Puttevils, Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century
Index
Epilogue
Preliminary Material
Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800
Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasises the role played by individuals, rather than institutions, in the overseas expansion and consequent development of European empires. While unveiling the practices and mechanisms of cooperation be…
Austerity-Driven Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe: Eroding the Security of Labour Market Insiders
The sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone and increased pressures for ‘structural reform’ have led to a period of intensive change in labour market policy in Southern Europe. Examining the cases of Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, this article focuses on the security of labour market insiders, a key group in labour markets that is highly segmented. The security of labour market insiders is conceptualised as consisting of security in employment …
Free Agents and Formal Institutions in the Portuguese Empire: Towards a Framework of Analysis
factors competed with each other, drawing one another’s customers away through these gifts [that they would give to the African authorities], and giving the presents has become so ingrained that nowadays these Daches [gifts] amount to 6 or 7 percent. Through the rivalry of the factors (or their failure to reach a trading agreement) this Dache has come to stay and has turned into a rente [tribute], so that one knows how much of a Dache or gift sho…
Cross-cultural Entrepreneurship in the Atlantic: Africans, Dutch and Sephardic Jews in Western Africa, 1580-1674
The importance of the Atlantic Ocean during the Early Modern period has been stressed in a growing number of studies since the 1960s. However, some aspects of the contacts between different cultures and continents have enjoyed little attention. One of these is the role of individuals behind the Atlantic economic system: merchants, businessmen and entrepreneurs
Explorations in History and Globalization
List of contributors. List of maps. List of figures. List of tables. Introduction Catia Antunes and Karwan Fatah-Black Part 1: Exchanges and Movements 1. Ecological exchanges and environmental history Chris Gratien 2. Connecting the world: migration and globalization in the second millennium Leo Lucassen 3. Redirecting global labor history? Matthias van Rossum 4. Trading networks in global history Claude Markovits 5. Missionary movements and the …
Het omzeilen van monopoliehandel. Smokkel en belastingontduiking bij de handel in brazielhout, 1500-1674
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Amsterdam Merchants in the Slave Trade and African Commerce, 1580s-1670s
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Ports on the Border of the State, 1200–1800: An Introduction
A war of words: Sephardi merchants, (inter)national incidents, and litigation in the Dutch Republic, 1580–1640
Far from being passive victims of prevailing political winds or unfair and exploitative legal systems, the Sephardim of the early seventeenth century Dutch Republic were active and successful in influencing political and legal decision-making in their favour. Using two examples, this article illustrates how the Portuguese ‘Nation’ took advantage of the political and legal options available to them to safeguard their business interests. The articl…
The Commercial Relationship between Amsterdam and the Portuguese Salt-Exporting Ports: Aveiro and Setubal, 1580-1715
Salt was a vital product in pre-industrial societies. Its value is associated with its preserving characteristics, which allowed foodstuffs and hides to be preserved for a relatively long time. This quality made it vital for the maintenance of pre-industrial activities like the fisheries. During the Middle Ages, most of the South Western European ports produced enough salt to respond to the needs of their urban and rural populations. With the gro…
Ports on the Border of the State, 1200–1800: An Introduction
The Commercial Relationship between Amsterdam and the Portuguese Salt-Exporting Ports: Aveiro and Setubal, 1580-1715
Salt was a vital product in pre-industrial societies. Its value is associated with its preserving characteristics, which allowed foodstuffs and hides to be preserved for a relatively long time. This quality made it vital for the maintenance of pre-industrial activities like the fisheries. During the Middle Ages, most of the South Western European ports produced enough salt to respond to the needs of their urban and rural populations. With the gro…
Cross-cultural Entrepreneurship in the Atlantic: Africans, Dutch and Sephardic Jews in Western Africa, 1580-1674
The importance of the Atlantic Ocean during the Early Modern period has been stressed in a growing number of studies since the 1960s. However, some aspects of the contacts between different cultures and continents have enjoyed little attention. One of these is the role of individuals behind the Atlantic economic system: merchants, businessmen and entrepreneurs
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa. Empires, Merchants and the Atlantic System, 1580-1674
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
A. R. Disney, A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807
Amsterdam Merchants in the Slave Trade and African Commerce, 1580s-1670s
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Free Agents and Formal Institutions in the Portuguese Empire: Towards a Framework of Analysis
factors competed with each other, drawing one another’s customers away through these gifts [that they would give to the African authorities], and giving the presents has become so ingrained that nowadays these Daches [gifts] amount to 6 or 7 percent. Through the rivalry of the factors (or their failure to reach a trading agreement) this Dache has come to stay and has turned into a rente [tribute], so that one knows how much of a Dache or gift sho…
Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900
This book focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the second millennium, when transportation technology was fragile and religion often a primary marker of identity. It examines a wide range of commercial exchanges from first encounters between strangers who worshipped different gods and originated in different continents to everyday transactions between merchants who live…
Austerity-Driven Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe: Eroding the Security of Labour Market Insiders
The sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone and increased pressures for ‘structural reform’ have led to a period of intensive change in labour market policy in Southern Europe. Examining the cases of Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, this article focuses on the security of labour market insiders, a key group in labour markets that is highly segmented. The security of labour market insiders is conceptualised as consisting of security in employment …
A war of words: Sephardi merchants, (inter)national incidents, and litigation in the Dutch Republic, 1580–1640
Far from being passive victims of prevailing political winds or unfair and exploitative legal systems, the Sephardim of the early seventeenth century Dutch Republic were active and successful in influencing political and legal decision-making in their favour. Using two examples, this article illustrates how the Portuguese ‘Nation’ took advantage of the political and legal options available to them to safeguard their business interests. The articl…
Index
Epilogue
Preliminary Material
Het omzeilen van monopoliehandel. Smokkel en belastingontduiking bij de handel in brazielhout, 1500-1674
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Explorations in History and Globalization
List of contributors. List of maps. List of figures. List of tables. Introduction Catia Antunes and Karwan Fatah-Black Part 1: Exchanges and Movements 1. Ecological exchanges and environmental history Chris Gratien 2. Connecting the world: migration and globalization in the second millennium Leo Lucassen 3. Redirecting global labor history? Matthias van Rossum 4. Trading networks in global history Claude Markovits 5. Missionary movements and the …
Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800
Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasises the role played by individuals, rather than institutions, in the overseas expansion and consequent development of European empires. While unveiling the practices and mechanisms of cooperation be…
On Cosmopolitanism and Cross-Culturalism: An Enquiry into the Business Practices and Multiple Identities of the Portuguese Merchants of Amsterdam
Jeroen Puttevils, Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century
Jeroen Puttevils, Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century
Windows of global exchange: Dutch ports and the slave trade, 1600–1800
In 2008, Pierre Gervais contended that social and economic developments in the Atlantic were to be ascribed to an overwhelming European intervention in West Africa and the Americas. This article questions Gervais’s assumption by stressing how Europeans, West Africans and Americans – individuals and states – mutually influenced urban hierarchies and distributive hubs across three different continents, while arguing that these interactions and inte…
The Portuguese Maritime Empire: Global Nodes and Transnational Networks
Dutch-Portuguese Diplomatic Encounters, 1640-1703: Exchanges, Sovereignty and “World Peace”
This article traces the multiplex relationships established between Portuguese ambassadors, consuls and extraordinary envoys in the Dutch Republic between 1640 and 1703 with the Portuguese kingdom, the king, the Portuguese “Nation” in Amsterdam and the Dutch States General. In negotiating multiple contracts and treaties regarding “world peace,” these men determined the course of history not so much because they were bound by the service of a stat…
European shipbuilding and ship repairs outside Europe: Problems, questions and some hypotheses
This special issue explains how and why European maritime powers resorted to ship repair and shipbuilding overseas, and how these activities, in multiple ways, justify a re-evaluation of the global impact of shipbuilding worldwide and the influence it had in defining overseas empires. The explanation and further considerations in the core articles examining the Dutch experience of shipbuilding and ship repairs overseas, in both the Atlantic and I…
Going Bust: Some Reflections on Colonial Bankruptcies
While this special issue raises a significant number of questions, constraints have dictated that only some of these questions are actually answered. The pioneering work presented consequently remains a modest attempt to initiate a more general discussion about the causes and the social and economic consequences of business failure in the early modern period, particularly with regard to colonial enterprises
An Old Practitioner Still in Search of the métier d'historien Response to Peer Vries, “The Prospects of Global History: Personal Reflections of an Old Believer”
Peer Vries's eloquent review essay “The Prospects of Global History: Personal Reflections of an Old Believer” sees the chance to review The Prospect of Global History as an opportunity to champion Global History as a discipline and voice his concerns regarding what, in his view, have become possible abuses or deviancies in the practice of the discipline. His long-standing status as one of the founding fathers of the discipline and of its consecra…
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