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Zusatztext “It documents an important and laudable scholarly effort to up-date, advance and channel historical research on the impact of maritime trade and exchange between Europe and Asia in the early modern period in new and exciting directions … . It is a generally successful collective work and should be welcomed and engaged with. … Goods from the East does succeed in updating, advancing and channeling our historical research on those topics.” (George Bryan Souza, International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 28 (3), August, 2016) Informationen zum Autor Maxine Berg is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK, where she has taught since 1978. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy, Founder and Co-Director of the Global History and Culture Centre at Warwick, and was Senior Researcher for the European Research Council. Her recent books include Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the Twenty-first Century (2013) and Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2005). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents1. General Introduction and Section Introduction: Europe's Trade with Asia; Maxine Berg2. Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies; Jan de Vries Section Introduction: Objects of Encounter and Transfers of Knowledge; Maxine Berg3. 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 Nadri5. The Orient and the dawn of Western industrialization: Armenian calico printers from Constantinople in Marseilles (1669-1686); Olivier Raveux6. Europe - China - Europe: The Transmission of the Craft of Painted Enamel in the 17th and 18th Centuries; Xiaodong Xu7. Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century; Dagmar Schäfer8. Indian Weavers and East India Company Markets: Surat and Dhaka in the 1790s; Maxine Berg Section Introduction: Private Trade and Networks; Chris Nierstrasz9. The Eurasian Diamond Trade in the Eighteenth Century: a Balanced Model of Complementary Markets; Tijl Vanneste10. British Private Trade Networks and Metropolitan Connections in the Eighteenth Century; Timothy Davies11. Worlds Apart? Merchants! Mariners! and the Organization of the Private Trade in Chinese Export Wares in Eighteenth-Century Europe; Meike Fellinger12. The Dutch and the English East India Company's Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative View; Om PrakashSection Introduction: Consuming East and West; Felicia Gottmann 13. Becoming Consumers: Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Native-born Middling Households in 18th Century Amsterdam; Anne McCants14.'Exotic' Goods? Far-Eastern Commodities for the French Market in India in the Eighteenth Century; Kevin Le Doudic15. Selling India and China in the Eighteenth-Century Paris; Natacha Coquery16. Textile Furies - the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cottons 1686-1759; Felicia Gottmann Section Introduction: A Taste for Tea; Hanna Hodacs17. The Popularisation of Tea: East India Companies! Private Traders! Smugglers and the Consum...
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“It documents an important and laudable scholarly effort to up-date, advance and channel historical research on the impact of maritime trade and exchange between Europe and Asia in the early modern period in new and exciting directions … . It is a generally successful collective work and should be welcomed and engaged with. … Goods from the East does succeed in updating, advancing and channeling our historical research on those topics.” (George Bryan Souza, International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 28 (3), August, 2016)
