Sushil Chaudhury / Michel Morineau (eds.)

Merchants, Companies and Trade

Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era
Herausgeber: Morineau, Michel; Chaudhury, Sushil

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Produktbeschreibung

Written by well-known scholars, this book raises pertinent questions and takes up fresh 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521037471
• ISBN-10: 0521037476
• Artikelnr.: 22782980

Inhaltsangabe

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 Geneviève 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 Kéram Kévonian; 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 Haudrère; 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.