Merchants, companies and trade : Europe and Asia in the early modern era
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Merchants, companies and trade : Europe and Asia in the early modern era
(Studies in modern capitalism = Études sur le capitalisme moderne)
Cambridge University Press, 1999
- : uk : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 45 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Essays based on papers presented at the International Seminar on "Merchants, Companies, and Trade : the Asian and European Scene in the Indian Context, 16th-18th Century" organized at the Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, in 1990
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Written by well-known scholars, this book raises pertinent questions and takes up alternate perspectives on the growth and development of international trade between Europe and Asia, especially India, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through a comparative and comprehensive study of merchant communities, markets and commodities the individual authors argue, contrary to conventional views, that Asian merchants were in no way inferior to Europeans in terms of their commercial operations and business acumen. The book emphasizes the continuing and growing importance of India's overland trade, even in the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, traces the little-known world of Armenian merchants, the hitherto obscure, but voluminous, Indian trade with the Ottoman Empire, and by unearthing new evidence, demonstrates that the export activity of Asian merchants through the overland route from Bengal was higher, in fact, than the combined total of European exports.
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction Sushil Chaudhury and Michel Morineau
- Part I. Asia, Especially India, Around 1500: 1. Of what world-system was pre-1500 'India' a part? Ravi Arvind Palat and Immanuel Wallerstein
- 2. Trade in the Indian Ocean at the dawn of the sixteenth century Genevieve Bouchon
- Part II. Routes, Markets and Merchants: 3. The route through Quandahar: the significance of the overland trade from India to the West in the seventeenth century Niels Steensgaard
- 4. The Armenian merchant network: overall autonomy and local integration Michel Aghassian and Keram Kevonian
- 5. Commercial relations between India and the Ottoman Empire (late fifteenth to late eighteenth centuries): a few notes and hypotheses Gilles Veinstein
- 6. Eastern and Western merchants from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Michel Morineau
- 7. The other 'species' world: specification of commodities and moneys, and the knowledge-base of commerce, 1500-1900 Frank Perlin
- Part III. European Presence in Asia: 8. The Portuguese and the Dutch in Asian maritime trade: a comparative analysis Om Prakash
- 9. Competition or collaboration? Relations between the Dutch East India Company and Indian merchants around 1680 Femme S. Gaastra
- 10. The French India Company and its trade in the eighteenth century Philippe Haudrere
- 11. Sweden and India in the eighteenth century: Sweden's difficulty in gaining access to a crowded market C. Koninckx
- 12. The ambitions of the Austrian Empire with reference to East India during the last quarter of the eighteenth century Helma Houtman-de Smedt
- Part IV. Implications of Trade: Asia and Europe: 13. The Indian challenge: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Michel Morineau
- 14. The changing pattern of British trade in Indian textiles, 1701-1757 Dietmar Rothermund
- 15. French traders and India at the end of the eighteenth century Paul Butel
- 16. The Asian merchants and companies in Bengal's export trade, circa mid-eighteenth century Sushil Chaudhury
- Index.
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