Enslaved in Dzungaria: what an eighteenth-century crocheting instructor can teach us about overland globalisation
Journal: Journal of Global History
Year: 2021

Abstract This global microhistorical analysis of the Swede Brigitta Scherzenfeldt’s capture in Russia and her subsequent enslavement in the Dzungar khanate stresses actors and regions needed to nuance the history of globalisation. The early globalisation process is commonly exemplified with maritime contacts, involving free and often male West European actors. In contrast, this study combines multilingual source material to trace and discuss economic integration, cross-border trade, forced migra