"This interdisciplinary volume brings together a richly substantive collection of case studies that examine European-indigene interactions, economic relations, and their materialities in the formation of the modern world. Research has well demonstrated the extent and complexity of the varied...

Klappentext: Early modern trade and shipping through the Danish Sound has attracted the interest of many historians since a long time. A prominent reason for this is that the route via the Sound connected Europe?s main economies with the economically important Baltic Sea region. The other reason...

Introduction -- The regional setting -- The Atlantic connection: Little Popo & the rise of Afro-European trade, c. 1600-1702 -- The era of the warrior kings: 1702 to 1772 -- The era of the traders: 1772 to c.1807 -- Disintigration & reconstitution: political developments, 1820s to 1870s -- From...