Abstract This article looks at the specific early modern trade practice of pacotille and commercial networks, particularly free women colour, as a means approaching female knowledge intimate networks in ancien régime Caribbean colonies. Surviving documentation this flexible commerce allows us to approach highly different backgrounds knowledgeable skilled agents within socioeconomic framework ei...

Abstract This article analyzes the efforts to build spaces for medical community in Brazil since transfer of Court from Lisbon Rio de Janeiro 1808, through country’s independence process, until creation Imperial Academy Medicine, 1835. Such initiatives affirm prominence medical-scientific knowledge face traditional healing practices, as well a hygienic agenda independent nation, strongly linked...

Abstract A determined expansion in the productive capacity of Spanish agriculture was a fundamental and contentious objective during crisis country’s ancien régime formation liberal state, years transition from eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. In this study we examine reorientation that occurred an ambitious project for irrigation region Valencia. region, characterised by well-rooted commerc...

Abstract Governance is essentially a dynamic mechanism to promote collective action for the common good. The Chinese concept of public/common ( gōnggòng ) and its political philosophy Grand Union governance provide an alternative perspective understanding such dynamics from unit family through institutions state-embedded society. Three critical arguments with interconnected elements are analyse...