Networking: Trade and Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

Glaisyer, Natasha

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“…Allen, Moore, and their co-authors examined Quakers in England, America, and continental Europe, looking at politics, law, business, and lifestyle in this later period (Allen and Moore 2018). Other historians have examined causes for the opposition to Quakers rooted in their violation of the Anglican emphasis on Christian sociability (Klein 1997), the centrality of the idea of covenant to early Quaker theology (Gwyn 1995), and the social, cultural, and economic importance of the transatlantic commercial networks of which Quaker merchants were a part (Glaisyer 2004).…”

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“Our Antient Friends … Are Much Reduced”: Mary and James Wright, the Hopewell Friends Meeting, and Quaker Women in the Southern Backcountry, c. 1720–c. 1790

Knight

2021

Genealogy

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Although the existence of Quakers in Virginia is well known, the best recent surveys of Virginia history devote only passing attention to them, mostly in the context of expanding religious freedoms during the revolutionary era. Few discuss the Quakers themselves or the nature of Quaker settlements although notably, Warren Hofstra, Larry Gragg, and others have studied aspects of the Backcountry Quaker experience. Recent Quaker historiography has reinterpreted the origins of the Quaker faith and the role of key individuals in the movement, including the roles of Quaker women. Numerous studies address Quaker women collectively. Few, however, examine individual families or women of different generations within a single family, and Robynne Rogers Healey has argued for “more biographies of less well-known Quaker women”. This essay uses a four-generation genealogical case study of the Quaker Bowater-Wright family to analyze the development of the Quaker faith in the Virginia backcountry and the lower South and its spread into the Old Northwest. In the backcountry environment, with its geographically isolated settlements and widely dispersed population, early Quaker migrants found fertile ground for both their economic and religious activities. The way of life that developed there differed significantly from the hierarchical Anglican structure of the Tidewater region and the more vocal evangelical groups with their independent congregational structure in the southern backcountry. This article argues that Quaker women played a critical role in shaping Quaker migration and institutional growth in eighteenth and nineteenth century America. It also suggests that the Quaker institutional structure reinforced family connections by creating a close bond that united southern Quakers across a great geographical area.

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“Our Antient Friends … Are Much Reduced”: Mary and James Wright, the Hopewell Friends Meeting, and Quaker Women in the Southern Backcountry, c. 1720–c. 1790

Knight

2021

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“…Linking diverse places this series of networks enable knowledge to be exchanged, commodities to be traded, trust negotiated and people to travel -albeit often involuntarily. 8 The importance of 'trust' -the reliability of parties -in non-western settings has been evidenced by Peter Robb's case study of Mr Upjohn's circle in Calcutta. As he points out, 'Calcutta practices, such as trust, goodwill, privilege, and mutual support among networks of friends and allies, imply systems (not structures), including a specific 'sense of limits' within the 'practical kinship' of groups whose members thought about their unity, and hence an informal cultural code that disposed the members to certain motives and actions.'…”

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Trust in the Indian Labour Diaspora

Bates

2021

Journal of Migration History

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This paper investigates the role of trust relationships through a re-examination of the activities of intermediaries (recruiters) in the Indian indentured labour system of the Indian Ocean in the colonial era. A review of the utilisation of trust in development discourse and its applicability to the literature of colonial subaltern migration and to a specific historical context is undertaken. The paper demonstrates that informal trust networks are critical to an understanding of the operation of indenture, that the appraisal of their functioning and effectiveness necessitates the construction of a counter narrative to the ‘official’ archive, and suggests a new means of adapting the trust discourse to this field of study through an assessment of how these knowledge and information networks were disseminated and by whom.

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“…Global connections are often facilitated through organisational links, as trade and communication across vast distances requires trust, accountability, and formal coordination. 18 In the 'hub and spoke' form, one or several large firms play a pivotal role in local business by dominating the supply chain and engaging with global networks of inputs and investment. 'Satellite industrial platforms' involve large branch facilities, located in the district, but externally-owned and headquartered.…”

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Buzz and Pipelines: Knowledge and Decision-Making in a Global Business Services Precinct

Ville

Wright

2018

Journal of Urban History

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This paper provides a historical analysis of an urban services district through its examination of the Melbourne wool trade precinct in the 1920s. It is a study of both a local and global community whose social and spatial interaction facilitated large-scale trade of a complex commodity that has rarely been examined. Geographic mapping of the local and global connections of the precinct has been combined with archival evidence. It reveals the "buzz" of the Melbourne precinct, created by local social and professional connections among wool brokers and buyers. "Pipelines" to wool growing and textile regions were developed through overseas branches of firms, with global knowledge exchanged through correspondence, telegraph, and migration. These features shaped the progress of the trade, facilitating improvements in its infrastructure and in the ability of Melbourne's wool brokers and buyers to fulfill their role as intermediaries in the global supply chain for this complex commodity.

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Networking: Trade and Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

Cited by 35 publications

References 13 publications

“Our Antient Friends … Are Much Reduced”: Mary and James Wright, the Hopewell Friends Meeting, and Quaker Women in the Southern Backcountry, c. 1720–c. 1790

“Our Antient Friends … Are Much Reduced”: Mary and James Wright, the Hopewell Friends Meeting, and Quaker Women in the Southern Backcountry, c. 1720–c. 1790

Trust in the Indian Labour Diaspora

Buzz and Pipelines: Knowledge and Decision-Making in a Global Business Services Precinct

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