Merchants, companies, and trade: Europe and Asia in the early modern era

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...

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Other Authors: Morineau, Michel (Editor) , Chaudhury, Sushil (Editor)
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press December 2009
Series:Studies in modern capitalism
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511599620
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Online Access:Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511599620
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Author Notes:edited by Sushil Chaudhury and Michel Morineau
Table of Contents:
  • Of what world-system was pre-1500 India a part? Ravi Arvind Palat and Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Trade in the Indian Ocean at the dawn of the sixteenth century Geneviève Bouchon
  • Route through Quandahar Niels Steensgaard
  • Armenian merchant network Michel Aghassian and Kéram Kévonian
  • Commercial relations between India and the Ottoman Empire (late fifteenth to late eighteenth centuries) Gilles Veinstein
  • Eastern and Western merchants from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Michel Morineau
  • Other species world Frank Perlin
  • Portuguese and the Dutch in Asian maritime trade Om Prakash
  • Competition or collaboration? Femme S. Gaastra
  • French India Company and its trade in the eighteenth century Philippe Haudrère
  • Sweden and India in the eighteenth century C. Koninckx
  • Ambitions of the Austrian Empire with reference to East India during the last quarter of the eighteenth century Helma Houtman-De Smedt
  • Indian challenge Michel Morineau
  • Changing pattern of British trade in Indian textiles, 1701-1757 Dietmar Rothermund
  • French traders and India at the end of the eighteenth century Paul Butel
  • Asian merchants and companies in Bengal's export trade, circa mid-eighteenth century Sushil Chaudhury.