This article takes a micro-historical actor-centered approach to study the encounter between the officers of a Prussian East India Company Ship and local elites in 1750s Praia, Cape Verde. Combining recent advances in New Diplomatic History and in Company Studies with insights from the study of Contact Zones and transculturation, it analyzes the diplomatic strategies marginalized and hybrid players could adopt to project themselves onto the early modern global stage and locally counterbalance the hegemonic Northern European Atlantic powers. It thus proposes an alternative model of nonprofessional diplomatic interaction in the early modern period.

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接触区的混合公司：1750 年代佛得角普鲁士东印度人的“全球本地化”外交努力

本文采用微观历史的演员为中心的方法来研究 1750 年代佛得角普拉亚的一艘普鲁士东印度公司船只的军官与当地精英之间的相遇。将新外交史和公司研究的最新进展与接触区和跨文化研究的见解相结合，分析了边缘化和混合型参与者可以采用的外交策略，以将自己投射到早期的现代全球舞台并在当地平衡霸权的北欧大西洋权力。因此，它提出了现代早期非专业外交互动的另一种模式。