Goods from the East, 1600-1800 : Trading Eurasia / edited by Maxine Berg, Hanna Hodacs, Chris Nierstrasz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berg, Maxine., Editor.

Gottmann, Felicia., Editor.

Hodacs, Hanna., Editor.

Nierstrasz, Chris., Editor.

Series:

Europe's Asian Centuries, 2946-3661

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Asia--History.

Asia.

Europe--History.

Europe.

History, Modern.

Economic History.

Asian History.

European History.

Modern History.

Local Subjects:

Economic History.

Asian History.

European History.

Modern History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVI, 369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137403940

1137403942