NETWORKS IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
An important feature of the early modern period is the shift in traders, capital and trading-hubs from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. While Venice, Genoa and Milan show signs of decline, Lisbon, Amsterdam and London were on a rise attracting merchants and commodities from the Mediterranean South to the Atlantic North. The so called “discoveries” of the New World marked by Columbus’s landing in America coupled with Vasco da Gama’s rounding of the Cape of Storms and reaching India by sea i.e., the discovery of a sea-route to the Old World meant that there was much more to the Mediterranean world than what meets the eye at first sight. In this seminar we will explore the connections and networks beyond the Mediterranean. This section examines concepts like “European expansion” and by visiting the legend of Vasco da Gama consider the process of history writing, critical source reading and perspectives in early modern historiography
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