Cátia Antunes is Professor of History of Global Economic Networks: Merchants, Entrepreneurs and Empires, University of Leiden, Netherlands. Co-editors of Beyond Empires. Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networtks, 1500-1800 (Leiden; Bonston: Brill, 2016), Polónia and Antunes also cooperated within the DynCoopNet project – Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Networks in the First Global Age (www.dyncoopnet-pt.org).