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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/67312 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation.
Author: Wirta, K.H.
Title: Dark horses of business : overseas entrepreneurship in seventeenth-century Nordic
trade in the Indian and Atlantic oceans
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Abbreviations
SAC: Swedish Africa Company DEIC: Danish East India Company
VOC: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie WIC: West Indische Compagnie
FWIC: French West India Company EIC: English East India Company
NL-HaNA: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Netherlands OWIC: Oude Westindische Compagnie
S.G.: States General
RAC: Rigsarkivet Copenhagen, Denmark RAS: Riksarkivet Stockholm, Sweden DK: Danske Kancelli
TKIA Tyske Kancelli indenrigske afdelning TKUA Tyske Kancelli udenrigske afdelning LA: Leufsta arkiv
H&S: Handel och sjöfart BN: Bibliothèque nationale SAA: Staatsarchief Amsterdam NA: Notarieel archief
FC: Furley Collection RP: Riksrådets protokoll RR: Riksregistraturen
VLA: Vadstena Landsarkiv, FBA: Finspångsbruk arkiv
KKA: Kommerskollegium, huvudarkivet UUB Uppsala Universitets Bibliotek HCA High court of Admiralty
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Table of figures and maps
Figure 1-1 Chronologies of the Northern European wars ... 11
Figure 1-2 Map of Swedish areas around the Baltic in the seventeenth century ... 13
Figure 1-3 Nordic monarchs during the first half of the seventeenth century ... 14
Figure 2-1 Map of Nordic interests at the Elbe river ... 38
Figure 2-2 Example of a letter written by Carloff as prosecutor of the WIC ... 58
Figure 3-1 Table of ten main investors during the second charter of the SAC ... 72
Figure 3-2 Map of Danish factories and support nodes in Asia ... 74
Figure 3-3 Map of the Gold Coast ... 84
Figure 5-1 Process of knowledge accumulation ... 130
Figure 5-2 Map of the region of Western Africa in which Carloff was active ... 136
Figure 5-3 Slave trade voyages involving Carloff... 140
