Enslaved in Dzungaria : what an eighteenth-century crocheting instructor can teach us about overland globalisation
Hellman, Lisa LU
(2022)
In Journal of Global History
17(3).
p.374-393
- Abstract
- This global microhistorical analysis of the Swede Brigitta Scherzenfeldt’s capture in Russia and her subsequent enslavement in the Dzungar khanate stresses actors and regions needed to nuance the history of globalisation. The early globalisation process is commonly exemplified with maritime contacts, involving free and often male West European actors. In contrast, this study combines multilingual source material to trace and discuss economic integration, cross-border trade, forced migration, the circulation of knowledge, literary depictions, and diplomatic contacts in the Central Asian borderlands between China and Russia. In the process, I clarify the importance of female, coerced actors, and overland connections between non-European... (More)
- This global microhistorical analysis of the Swede Brigitta Scherzenfeldt’s capture in Russia and her subsequent enslavement in the Dzungar khanate stresses actors and regions needed to nuance the history of globalisation. The early globalisation process is commonly exemplified with maritime contacts, involving free and often male West European actors. In contrast, this study combines multilingual source material to trace and discuss economic integration, cross-border trade, forced migration, the circulation of knowledge, literary depictions, and diplomatic contacts in the Central Asian borderlands between China and Russia. In the process, I clarify the importance of female, coerced actors, and overland connections between non-European empires for the history of early modern globalisation. (Less)
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- author
- Hellman, Lisa
LU
- publishing date
- 2022-11
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Centralasien, Tidigmoderna tiden, Genus, globalisation, Mikrohistoria, Krigsfångar, Central Asia, early modern, gender, globalisation, microhistory, prisoners of war
- in
- Journal of Global History
- volume
- 17
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 20 pages
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85106859511
- ISSN
- 1740-0228
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1740022821000176
- language
- English
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- no
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