Enslaved in Dzungaria: what an eighteenth-century crocheting instructor can teach us about overland globalisation
Lisa Hellman
Abstract This global microhistorical analysis of the Swede Brigitta Scherzenfeldt’s capture in Russia and her subsequent enslavement Dzungar khanate stresses actors regions needed to nuance history globalisation. The early globalisation process is commonly exemplified with maritime contacts, involving free often male West European actors. In contrast, this study combines multilingual source material trace discuss economic integration, cross-border trade, forced migration, circulation knowledge, literary depictions, diplomatic contacts Central Asian borderlands between China Russia. process, I clarify importance female, coerced actors, overland connections non-European empires for modern
Journal of Global History