Early modern overseas careers : Central-Eastern Europeans as Jesuit missionaries and Dutch East India employees / edited by Igor Iwo Chabrowski, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chabrowski, Igor Iwo, editor.

Królikowska-Jedlińska, Natalia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--Missions--Asia--History.

Jesuits.

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie--Employees--History.

Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.

Central Europeans--Travel--Asia--History.

Central Europeans.

East Europeans--Travel--Asia--History.

East Europeans.

Globalization--History.

Globalization.

Europe, Central--Intellectual life.

Europe, Central.

Europe, Eastern--Intellectual life.

Europe, Eastern.

Asia.

Central Europe.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Budapest] : Central European University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"In the early modern period, two European networks, the Society of Jesus and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) spanned the globe and contributed to its multifaceted globalization. This book focuses on the members of the former, Jesuit missionaries, and the employees of the VOC originating from Central and Eastern Europe. The well-chosen case studies examine the group characteristics, career influences, and narratives of these Central Eastern Europeans. They explore the question of why subjects of Polish kings, Transylvanian princes, or Habsburg emperors dreamed of venturing overseas with the colonial merchants or aspired to work as missionaries in China and Japan.The book examines the complexities of this early modern globalization: its scope, limits, importance, social, ethnic, and political ramifications. It researches how these networks reached out to the region of Central and Eastern Europe. The authors argue that the region was hardly considered peripheral from the perspective of Rome (and the Jesuits) or the Netherlands (and the colonial traders). They do, however, explore whether there were "glass ceilings," or limits of reach within the two networks for individuals from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the former Kingdom of Hungary."-- From De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Dutch East India Company (VOC): foundation, administration, territories, and archives / Rafał Szmytka

Jesuit strategy of communication and its mirror: the order’s roman archives / Robert Danieluk

Polish-Lithuanian jesuits searching for a missionary field in the orient, 1610-1723 / Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska

Inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth in the VOC, 1620-1700 / Rafał Szmytka

A Hungarian employee of the VOC: the adventures of András Jelky / Gábor Pusztai

Jesuit petitioners for the indies from the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth in the early modern period / Elisa Frei

Jesuit procurators, traveling between China and Europe, and Dutch East India employees during the turbulent period from the 1640s to the 1680s / Frederik Vermote

A jesuit among the kalmyks: an example of proto-ethnography by the society of jesus in the eighteenth century / Paul Shore

A great longing for india vs. the reality of the jesuits from the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth: the case of Paulus Kostanecki / Monika Miazek-Męczyńska.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed March 3, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Early modern overseas careers.

ISBN:

9789633868843

963386884X

9789633868836

9633868831

OCLC:

1564131797

Publisher Number:

CIPO000316640

Access Restriction:

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