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

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Description
1 online resource (XVI, 369 p.)

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Series
Europe's Asian Centuries [More in this series]
Summary note
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.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
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.
ISBN
1-137-40394-2
Doi
  • 10.1057/9781137403940
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