Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650 : Reading Debates over Risk and Reward / Julia Schleck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schleck, Julia, author.

Series:

Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World Series

Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World Series ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Europe--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press B.V., [2024]

Summary:

Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England's earliest global trading ventures. Arguments over the staggering loss of lives and national resources and struggles over control of the new trade in luxuries reveal the forging of rationales justifying the new capitalist inequalities. Yet Company servants traveling abroad to conduct the risky trade resisted this newly coalescing social formation through strategic disobedience to their masters' will, controlling information and promoting ignorance when it served their financial and sexual purposes. <i>Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650</i> interrogates the forces that shaped England's earliest forays into capitalist imperialism by tracing the battles over corporate control of men's finances, marriages, and bare survival at the dawn of its global trade.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Wasting Mariners: Kayll vs. Digges

2. Justifying Wealth: Arguments over Control of the Trade

3. Contending with the Ocean: Battles over Private Trade

4. Desiring Servants: Liaisons Abroad

Conclusion: The Functions of Ignorance

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Apr 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-69300-8

1-04-080101-3

90-485-5785-2

9781003693000

OCLC:

1416883575