Goods from the East, 1600–1800: Trading Eurasia

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies....Pages 7-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-43
Spirited Transactions. The Morals and Materialities of Trade Contacts between the Dutch, the British and the Malays (1596–1619)....Pages 45-60
The Indigo Trade of the English East India Company in the Seventeenth Century: Challenges and Opportunities....Pages 61-76
The Orient and the Dawn of Western Industrialization: Armenian Calico Printers from Constantinople in Marseilles (1669–1686)....Pages 77-91
Europe-China-Europe: The Transmission of the Craft of Painted Enamel in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries....Pages 92-106
Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries....Pages 107-118
‘The Merest Shadows of a Commodity’: Indian Muslins for European Markets 1750–1800....Pages 119-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-137
The Eurasian Diamond Trade in the Eighteenth Century: A Balanced Model of Complementary Markets....Pages 139-153
British Private Trade Networks and Metropolitan Connections in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 154-167
Worlds Apart? Merchants, Mariners, and the Organization of the Private Trade in Chinese Export Wares in Eighteenth-Century Europe....Pages 168-182
The Dutch and the English East India Companies Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative View....Pages 183-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-196
Becoming Consumers: Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Native-born Middling Households in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam....Pages 197-215
‘Exotic’ Goods? Far-Eastern Commodities for the French Market in India in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 216-228
Selling India and China in Eighteenth-Century Paris....Pages 229-243
Textile Furies — the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cottons 1686–1759....Pages 244-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-261
The Popularization of Tea: East India Companies, Private Traders, Smugglers and the Consumption of Tea in Western Europe, 1700–1760....Pages 263-276
Chests, Tubs and Lots of Tea — the European Market for Chinese Tea and the Swedish East India Company, c. 1730–1760....Pages 277-293
A North Europe World of Tea: Scotland and the Tea Trade, c.1690–c.1790....Pages 294-308
Arriving to a Set Table: The Integration of Hot Drinks in the Urban Consumer Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Low Countries....Pages 309-327
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
For the Home and the Body: Dutch and Indian Ways of Early Modern Consumption....Pages 331-349
Back Matter....Pages 350-369