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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Global Perspectives on Early Modern Germany and Switzerland
DESCRIPTION:German and Swiss protagonists have assumed an increasingly important role in global history, both as researchers and research objects. As far as the early modern period is concerned, the focus has been far more frequently directed outward; that is, due to the ephemeral nature and small number of early modern German trading companies and colonies, research has primarily looked at members of European trading companies from the Holy Roman Empire and Switzerland, at German merchants, shipowners, and bankers in European trading metropolises, and at German and Swiss explorers, emigrants, adventurers, and plantation owners overseas.

  



      
Yet, there is another question that is only gradually coming to the fore, namely whether or to what extent the Holy Roman Empire and the Swiss Confederation themselves were changed by these multiple global experiences and what effects global historical contexts have for the study of the Holy Roman Empire and Switzerland at both the local and territorial level.

  



      
Research on economic history has made the most progress in this regard: For example, it has shown that linen, which was traded in exchange for slaves, was by far the most important early modern German export commodity, that its labor-intensive production provided thousands of workers with wages and additional income, and that their increased purchasing power led to significant population growth in the eighteenth century. In some proto-industrial regions, living conditions improved to such an extent that even broader segments of the population were able to purchase previously unaffordable luxury goods such as sugar and coffee.

  



      
For many other fields, such studies are still pending. Given this state of the research, we ask about the repercussions for early modern globalization on the Holy Roman Empire and the Swiss Confederation and at the same time present new examples, fields, and aspects of this process.

  
Der Beitrag Global Perspectives on Early Modern Germany and Switzerland erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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