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

博士论文研究：《结构与增长：英国东印度的贸易，1601-1835》2005年6月21日工业革命之前，英国东印度公司将亚洲和北欧的分散市场联系起来，建立了一个结构严密、高度整合的全球贸易网络。这个项目使用一个引人注目的新数据集来重建这家英国公司在公司整个生命周期内的贸易网络发展。该项目旨在回答以下问题：(1)欧洲投资委员会如何成功地为有组织的全球贸易创造条件；(2)贸易扩大的过程是什么；(3)一个地点的体制构成在多大程度上影响其纳入有组织贸易网络的发展。该项目的最初阶段包括对数据进行电子转录，记录EIC的所有4,572次航行和在东印第安门船只上担任军官的12,956人的职业历史--此外还收集了EIC访问的272个港口的机构和地理变量，以及保存在大英图书馆保存的幸存船只日志中的微观遭遇历史。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。这种混合方法允许应用和研究来自新制度主义和社会网络的理论见解，旨在更广泛的经济、历史和文化社会学领域。特别注重将世界贸易的历史纳入现代经济增长的发展，并在已建立的世界经济体系的外围确定经济发展的机会。

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.