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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795917903321

Titolo

Goods from the East, 1600–1800 [[electronic resource] ] : Trading Eurasia / / edited by Maxine Berg, Felicia Gottmann, Hanna Hodacs, Chris Nierstrasz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-137-40394-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 369 p.)

Collana

Europe's Asian Centuries

Classificazione

HIS003000HIS010000HIS037040HIS037050

Disciplina

382.09504

Soggetti

Economic history

Asia-History

Europe-History

History, Modern

Economic History

Asian History

European History

Modern History

Asia Commerce Europe History 17th century

Asia Commerce Europe History 18th century

Europe Commerce Asia History 17th century

Europe Commerce Asia History 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.