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    Goods from the East, 1600-1800 : trading Eurasia / edited by Maxine Berg with Felicia Gottman, Hanna Hodac, Chris Nierstrasz.

    • Title:Goods from the East, 1600-1800 : trading Eurasia / edited by Maxine Berg with Felicia Gottman, Hanna Hodac, Chris Nierstrasz.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Berg, Maxine, 1950- editor.
    • Published/Created:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Luxuries--Asia--History.
      Luxuries--Europe--History.
      Trading companies--Asia--History.
      Trading companies--Europe--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.
    • Description:xvi, 369 pages ; 23 cm
    • Series:Europe's Asian centuries.
    • Summary:"The imperative of the long-distance seaborne trade of Europeans, from the age of exploration, was to acquire the goods of the exotic East--the silks and porcelains and tea of China, the spices of the spice islands and the textiles of India. Goods from the East focuses on the trade in fine products: how they were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe. This trade was conducted by East India Companies and many private traders, and the first Global Age that resulted deeply affected European consumption and manufacturing. This book provides a full comparative and connective study of Asia's trade with a range of European countries. Its themes relate closely to issues of fine manufacturing and luxury goods in the current age of globalization. Goods from the East brings together established scholars, such as Jan de Vries, Om Prakash and Josh Gommans, and a new generation of researchers, who together look into the connections between European consumer cultures and Asian trade"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781137403933 (hardback)
      1137403934 (hardback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Maxine Berg
      2. Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies / Jan de Vries
      pt. I Objects of Encounter and Transfers of Knowledge
      3. Spirited Transactions. The Morals and Materialities of Trade Contacts between the Dutch, the British and the Malays (1596
      1619) / Romain Bertrand
      4. Indigo Trade of the English East India Company in the Seventeenth Century: Challenges and Opportunities / Ghulam A. Nadri
      5. 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 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Xu Xiaodong
      7. Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Dagmar Schafer
      8. `The Merest Shadows of a Commodity': Indian Muslins for European Markets 1750
      1800 / Maxine Berg
      pt. II Private Trade and Networks
      9. 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 von Brescius
      12. Dutch and the English East India Companies Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative View / Om Prakash
      pt. III Consuming East and West
      13. Becoming Consumers: Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Native-born Middling Households in Eighteenth-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 Eighteenth-Century Paris / Natacha Coquery
      16. Textile Furies
      the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cottons 1686
      1759 / Felicia Gottmann
      pt. IV Taste for Tea
      17. Popularization 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 / Leos Muller
      19. North Europe World of Tea: Scotland and the Tea Trade, c.1690
      c.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 / Wouter Ryckbosch
      Conclusion The Indian Ocean World
      21. For the Home and the Body: Dutch and Indian Ways of Early Modern Consumption / Jos Gommans.
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