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Accepted Paper:
The resilience of urban networks overseas, 1600-1800
Karwan Fatah-Black
(Leiden University)
Paper short abstract:
The paper discusses the resilience of urban networks in the face of imperial attempts at monopolization, and draws conclusions on the interaction between European states, colonial cities and private entrepreneurs with limited access to political decision-making.
Paper long abstract:
Cities only exist in connection to other cities. Before the modern compression of space and time the dominant position of the metropolis was off-set by the self-sufficiency of colonies. This problem created a recurring conflict between monopolizing metropolitan institutions, and the decentralized and self-organized networks overseas. The paper presents cases from the Atlantic world (the Caribbean and North America) between 1600 and 1800 to outline how the terms on which the interested parties engaged in this conflict changed during the integration and disintegration of the Atlantic world.