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.
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Titolo del capitolo
Ad imperium et ultra: a comparative assessment of risk-mitigating strategies in early modern transimperial exploitation
Autori
Tessa De Boer, Ramona Negrón
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.20
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Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
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)
Curatori
Angela Orlandi
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Numero di pagine
568
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0962-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0963-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0964-9
Collana
Datini Studies in Economic History
ISSN della collana
2975-1241
e-ISSN della collana
2975-1195