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• Title:Rivalry for trade in tea and textiles : the English and Dutch East India Companies (1700-1800) / Chris Nierstrasz.
  
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• Author/Creator:Nierstrasz, Chris, 1978- author.
  
• Published/Created:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HF486.E6 N453 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:East India Company--History--18th century.
  Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie--History--18th century.
  Tea trade--Europe--History--18th century.
  Textile industry--Europe--History--18th century.
  Europe--Commerce--Asia--History--18th century.
  Asia--Commerce--Europe--History--18th century.
  
• Description:xvi, 219 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) 23 cm
  
• Series:Europe's Asian centuries.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781137486523 (hardback)
  113748652X (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. new approach
  2. Spices, tea and textiles
  3. East India Companies and tea
  4. East India Companies and textiles
  5. different chapters
  1. Imperfect Monopolies
  1. Imperfect monopoly in trade
  1.1. Mix of commodities
  1.2. Monopoly and private trade
  2. Imperfect monopoly in Europe
  2.1. Silver and taxation
  2.2. Re-export of Asian commodities
  3. Imperfect monopoly in Asia
  3.1. Beyond silver
  3.2. Intra-Asian trade and Empire
  3.3. Empire and the home state
  Conclusion
  2. Rivalry for Tea: Empires and Private Trade
  1. Tea, monopoly and competition
  1.1. Competition for monopoly (1685
  1730)
  1.2. competitive market (1730
  1790)
  2. Empires and tea
  2.1. Direct trade and Empire
  2.2. EIC intra-Asian trade and English country trade
  2.3. British Empire and Canton
  3. Private trade and tea
  3.1. `discovery' of tea
  3.2. Private trade and Batavia
  3.3. Private trade in tea as a tool of competition
  3.4. English private trade in tea
  Conclusion
  3. Popularisation of Tea: Smugglers and Different Varieties of Tea
  1. Tea and smuggling
  1.1. problem of contraband tea
  1.2. answer to smuggling
  2. Smuggling and America
  2.1. Unnoticed smuggling
  2.2. British Empires connect
  3. Selections of tea
  3.1. Different varieties, different prices
  3.2. different selection of tea
  Conclusion
  4. Rivalry for Textiles: A Global Market
  1. India, Europe and the Atlantic
  1.1. Different systems of trade
  1.2. imports of Indian textiles
  1.3. Textiles and mercantilism
  2. Textiles and empire in Asia
  2.1. Intra-Asian trade and textiles
  2.2. Balancing Asia and Europe
  2.3. English dominance
  Conclusion
  5. Consumption of Textiles: Return Cargoes and Variety
  1. Different regions, different textiles
  2. Competition for textiles
  2.1. Muslins
  2.2. White calicoes
  2.3. Coloured calicoes
  3. Imports of Indian textiles and the Industrial Revolution
  Conclusion
  Conclusion
  1. Popular consumption or not?
  2. Rival empires of trade.