Goods from the East, 1600-1800 [electronic resource] : Trading Eurasia /
Berg, Maxine.editor.
Gottmann, Felicia.editor.
Hodacs, Hanna.editor.
Nierstrasz, Chris.editor.
Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.
1. General Introduction and Section Introduction: Europe's Trade with Asia / Maxine Berg -- 2. Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies / Jan de Vries -- Section Introduction: Objects of Encounter and Transfers of Knowledge / Maxine Berg -- 3. Spirited Transactions : The Morals and Materialities of Trade Contacts between the Dutch, the British, and the Malays (1596-1619) / Romain Bertrand -- 4. The Indigo Trade of the English East India Company in the Seventeenth Century : Challenges and Opportunities / Ghulam Nadri -- 5. The Orient and the dawn of Western industrialization : Armenian calico printers from Constantinople in Marseilles (1669-1686) / Olivier Raveux -- 6. Europe-China-Europe : The Transmission of the Craft of Painted Enamel in the 17th and 18th Centuries / Xiaodong Xu -- 7. Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century / Dagmar Scha;fer -- 8. Indian Weavers and East India Company Markets : Surat and Dhaka in the 1790s / Maxine Berg -- Section Introduction: Private Trade and Networks / Chris Nierstrasz -- 9. The Eurasian Diamond Trade in the Eighteenth Century : a Balanced Model of Complementary Markets / Tijl Vanneste -- 10. British Private Trade Networks and Metropolitan Connections in the Eighteenth Century / Timothy Davies -- 11. Worlds Apart? : Merchants, Mariners, and the Organization of the Private Trade in Chinese Export Wares in Eighteenth-Century Europe / Meike Fellinger -- 12. The Dutch and the English East India Company's Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century : A Comparative View / Om Prakash -- Section Introduction: Consuming East and West / Felicia Gottmann -- 13. Becoming Consumers : Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Native-born Middling Households in 18th Century Amsterdam / Anne McCants -- 14. "Exotic" Goods? : Far-Eastern Commodities for the French Market in India in the Eighteenth Century / Kevin Le Doudic -- 15. Selling India and China in the Eighteenth-Century Paris / Natacha Coquery -- 16. Textile Furies : the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cottons, 1686-1759 / Felicia Gottmann -- Section Introduction: A Taste for Tea / Hanna Hodacs -- 17. The Popularisation of Tea : East India Companies, Private Traders, Smugglers and the Consumption of Tea in Western Europe, 1700-1760 / Chris Nierstraz -- 18. Chests, Tubs, and Lots of Tea : the European Market for Chinese Tea and the Swedish East India Company, c. 1730-1760 / Hanna Hodacs and Leos Müller -- 19. A North Europe World of Tea : Scotland & the Tea Trade, ca. 1690-ca.1790 / Andrew Mackillop -- 20. Arriving to a Set Table : The Integration of Hot Drinks in the Urban Consumer Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Low Countries / Bruno Blondé and Wouter Ryckbosch -- 21. For the Home and the Body : Dutch and Indian Ways of Early Modern Consumption / Jos Gommans.
Economic history.
Asia-History.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
Economic History.
Asian History.
European History.
Modern History.