Silk and Tea in the North [[electronic resource] ] : Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-Century Europe / / by Hanna Hodacs

• Autore: Hodacs Hanna
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 216 p.)
• Disciplina: 950
• Soggetto topico: Asia—History; Europe—History; Civilization—History; Labor—History; Asian History; European History; Cultural History; Labor History
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Commerce Asia History 18th century; Asia Commerce Europe History 18th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Scandinavian trade with China -- Dusty, ready-blended tea from the North -- A colourful cargo for a motley people -- Transferring and substituting tea and colours.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century. It is a global history exploring the exchange of silver for goods in Canton. It is also a European history studying the wholesale market for Asian goods in Gothenburg and Copenhagen, the formation of taste and the impact of fashion in the blending of tea and the assortments of colours on wrought silk destined for markets across Europe. Linking material history to political economy and the histories of science, this book ends on the threshold of the nineteenth century, the rise of the second British Empire in Asia, and the creation of synthetic dyes in Europe.
• Titolo autorizzato: Silk and Tea in the North
• ISBN: 1-137-45544-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910254791203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Europe's Asian Centuries