Atlantic Trade Via Supranational Networks in the Seventeenth Century

Claudia Schnurmann

This paper concentrates on the commercial connections between Dutchmen and Englishmen, on the one hand, and inhabitants of selected Dutch and English colonies in America on the other, as elements of a supranational network stretched across the Atlantic world during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. By taking a prosopographical approach, commercial techniques as well as the trade's organization and routes will be considered. The main purpose of this study is to trace the correlations among Atlantic trade on a supranational-styled, colonial self-assurance, and the conduct of the European authorities.

[WP # 99009]