Early Modern Overseas Careers : East-Central Europeans as Jesuit Missionaries and Dutch east India employees / edited by Igor Iwo Chabrowski, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska.

ed. by Igor Iwo Chabrowski and Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska.

Contents: Global Easts: series introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dutch East India Company (VOC): foundation, administration, territories, and archives -- Jesuit strategy of communication and its mirror: the order's Roman archives -- Polish-Lithuanian Jesuits searching for a missionary field in the Orient, 1610-1723 -- Inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the VOC, 1620-1700 -- A Hungarian employee of the VOC: the adventures of András Jelky -- Jesuit petitioners for the Indies from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the early modern period -- Jesuit procurators, traveling between China and Europe, and Dutch East India employees during the turbulent period from the 1640s to the 1680s -- A Jesuit among the Kalmyks: an example of proto-ethnography by the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century -- A great longing for India vs. the reality of the Jesuits from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: the case of Paulus Kostanecki.