Doctoral Dissertation Research - Structure and Growth: English Trade in the East Indies, 1601-1835

Peter S. Bearman，艾米丽A. Erikson博士论文改进补助金博士论文研究：“结构和增长：英国在东印度群岛的贸易，1601-1835“2005年6月21日在工业革命之前，英国东印度公司将亚洲和北方欧洲的分离市场联系起来，创造了一个结构化，密集整合的全球贸易网络。该项目使用了一个新的数据集来重建英国公司在公司生命周期内的贸易网络的发展。该项目旨在回答以下问题：（1）EIC如何成功地为有组织的全球贸易创造条件;（2）贸易扩展的过程是什么;（3）一个地点的制度构成在多大程度上影响其融入有组织的贸易网络的发展。该项目的初始阶段涉及电子转录数据，记录EIC的所有4，572次航行和12，956名在东印度钻石船上担任军官的人员的职业历史-辅之以收集EIC访问的272个港口的机构和地理变量以及保存在幸存船只日志中的遭遇微观历史，收藏在大英图书馆。时间跨度涵盖了两个世纪的扩张，从1601年到1835年。分析策略包括动态社会网络分析、空间分析、重点案例比较和标准统计技术。这种混合方法的方法允许新制度主义和社交网络的理论见解的应用和调查，旨在坐在经济，历史和文化社会学的更广泛的领域。特别注重将世界贸易的历史纳入现代经济增长的发展，并确定在既定世界经济体系外围的经济发展机会。

Peter S. Bearman, Emily A. EriksonDoctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Doctoral Dissertation Research: "Structure and Growth: English trade in the East Indies, 1601-1835"21 June 2005Before the industrial revolution, the English East India Company linked the disjoint markets of Asia and Northern Europe and created one structured, densely integrated global trade network. This project uses a remarkable, new dataset to reconstruct the development of the English company's trade network over the lifetime of the firm. The project is designed to answer the questions: (1) how did the EIC successfully create the conditions for organized global trade; (2) what is process by which trade expands; (3) to what extent does the institutional make-up of a location affect its incorporation into the development of an organized trade network. The initial stage of the project involved the electronic transcription of data recording all 4,572 voyages of the EIC and the career histories of the 12,956 men who served as officers aboard the East Indiamen ships - supplemented by the collection of institutional and geographic variables on the 272 ports visited by the EIC and micro-histories of encounters preserved in the surviving ships' logs, stored in the British Library. The span of time covers two centuries of expansion, from 1601 to 1835. Analysis strategies include dynamic social network analysis, spatial analysis, focused case comparisons, and standard statistical techniques. This mixed-method approach allows the application and investigation of theoretical insights from new institutionalism and social networks, designed to sit within the broader fields of economic, historical, and cultural sociology. There is a particular focus on incorporating the history of world trade into the development of modern economic growth and identifying opportunities for economic development at the peripheries of established world-economic systems.