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Ad imperium et ultra: a comparative assessment of risk-mitigating strategies in early modern transimperial exploitation

  • Tessa De Boer
  • Ramona Negrón

This paper provides a comparative assessment of risk-mitigating strategies in early modern transimperial exploitation. Analyses of risk and uncertainty in long-distance/colonial trades often depart from ‘intra-empire’ settings, yet transimperial trade – or foreigners seeking to exploit the resources of another empire – was widespread. We argue that by virtue of protectionist political economies of empire, this widespread transimperial exploitation entailed institutional risk. We analyze the commonalities and differences in Dutch exploitation of Spanish colonial resources in the 17th century and French colonial resources in the 18th century, identifying shared patterns in how actors managed this institutional risk across different empires and periods.

  • Keywords:
  • Spanish empire,
  • French empire,
  • risk,
  • uncertainty,
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Tessa De Boer

Leiden University, Netherlands - ORCID: 0000-0002-7359-9945

Ramona Negrón

Leiden University, Netherlands - ORCID: 0000-0001-8601-7468

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Ad imperium et ultra: a comparative assessment of risk-mitigating strategies in early modern transimperial exploitation

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Tessa De Boer, Ramona Negrón

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Inglese

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10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.20

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2026

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Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk management, insolvency, and bankruptcy in the pre-modern world (13th-18th centuries)

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Angela Orlandi

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