Network North

Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-14664-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 442 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Reihe: The Northern World

This volume deals with the development, implementation and maintenance of Scottish networks in Northern Europe from c.1600-1746. The book contains nine chapters divided into three parts of original and innovative archival reseach. After an introduction providing a theoretical overview of the subject, the first section focusses on the associations of kith and kin, place and nation and confessional loyalty tested in the numerous case studies throughout the book.
Section two provides an analysis of Scottish networks in an economic context providing both quantitative and qualitative evidence to describe their success and failures in a variety of situations and locations. The final section provides three meticulously researched case studies of subversive networks including an espionage network operating in Poland on behalf of Sweden, the confessional network of the irenicist John Durie and rounded off with a review of the Jacobite network stretching across Russia, Sweden, Prussia and Rome.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murdoch, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. ix
Abbreviations. xi
Introduction. 1

SECTION ONE: NETWORK LINKAGES
1. Kin Networks. 13
2. Networks of Place, Region and Nation. 49
3. Confessional Networks. 84

SECTION TWO: COMMERCIAL NETWORKS
4. Pedlars, Merchant and Consular Networks. 127
5. Manufacturing Networks. 170
6. Covert Commercial Networks. 207

SECTION THREE: SUBVERSIVE NETWORKS
7. Espionage and the ‘Subversive Network’. 251
8. Subverting Confessionalism: The Network of John Durie,
1628–1654. 280
9. Jacobite Networks in the North 1715–1750. 313

Conclusion. 349

Illustrations
Appendix A: Documents. 355
Appendix B: The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft. 367

Bibliography. 375
Index. 403

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Murdoch, Ph.D. (1998) lectures in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. His most recent publications include Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart: A Diplomatic and Military Analysis (2003), and, as co-editor with Alexia Grosjean, Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (2005).