The Trading World Of Asia And The English East India Company

Author : K. N. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521031592
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company written by K. N. Chaudhuri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published 1978"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Download or read book The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760 written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Farrington
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Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trading Places written by Anthony Farrington and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Barrow
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624665985
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The East India Company, 1600–1858 written by Ian Barrow and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In existence for 258 years, the English East India Company ran a complex, highly integrated global trading network. It supplied the tea for the Boston Tea Party, the cotton textiles used to purchase slaves in Africa, and the opium for China’s nineteenth-century addiction. In India it expanded from a few small coastal settlements to govern territories that far exceeded the British Isles in extent and population. It minted coins in its name, established law courts and prisons, and prosecuted wars with one of the world’s largest armies. Over time, the Company developed a pronounced and aggressive colonialism that laid the foundation for Britain’s Eastern empire. A study of the Company, therefore, is a study of the rise of the modern world. In clear, engaging prose, Ian Barrow sets the rise and fall of the Company into political, economic, and cultural contexts and explains how and why the Company was transformed from a maritime trading entity into a territorial colonial state. Excerpts from eighteen primary documents illustrate the main themes and ideas discussed in the text. Maps, illustrations, a glossary, and a chronology are also included.

Author : K. N. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415190763
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English East India Company written by K. N. Chaudhuri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : E. M. Jacobs
Publisher : Leiden University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Merchant in Asia written by E. M. Jacobs and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of its two centuries of existence (1602 to 1799), the VOC, the Dutch East India Company was the largest trading company in the world. Although the VOC was established to operate primarily as a trading company, it soon also came to play a prominent military, diplomatic and political role on the Asian stage and eventually it laid the foundations of the Dutch colonial empire in the Indonesian Archipelago. Merchant in Asia is the first study to pay attention to the full breadth and width of the VOC commercial activities in Asia. It looks at the company from the peak of its fame until its final decline at the end of the eighteenth century. The study focuses on the main trade goods - spices, Indian textiles, Chinese tea and Javanese coffee - and their specific by-products. Els Jacobs has analyzed in detail the VOC trade in fifteen of the most important commodities that together made up 85% of the total turnover. This innovative study is based on extensive research of the VOC archives and many other Dutch sources, as well as a detailed quantitative analysis of the VOC bookkeeping records. In the study the author sketches in vivid detail how the merchants of the VOC sold, bought, and even supervised the production of tropical products and how they dealt with Asian suppliers and consumers. In addition, she looks at the range of problems the merchants encountered in the maritime trade from Yemen and Persia in the West to China and Japan in the East, including India, Ceylon, Malacca, and the Indonesian Archipelago.

Author : H. V. Bowen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843830736
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worlds of the East India Company written by H. V. Bowen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the history and relationships of the East India Company from 1600 to the early 1800s.

Author : Anthony Farrington
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ISBN 13 : 9780712347563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trading Places written by Anthony Farrington and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British merchants who began trading with Asia in the late 1500s found a sophisticated and thriving trading community. Goods were manufactured and traded on a scale never seen in Europe, and Britain discovered a wealth of products including silks, porcelain, tea, spices and furniture. This illustrated book examines the history of trading with Asia, drawing on the extensive collections of the British Library, the prime holder of the documentary legacy of the East India Company.

Author : Margot Finn
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787350274
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 written by Margot Finn and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.

Author : Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0670085073
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The East India Company written by Tirthankar Roy and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2012 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first time account of East India Company from the perspective of Indian business history. For over 200 years, the East India Company was the largest and most powerful mercantile firm in Britain and Asia. Set up to procure Asian goods for British consumers, the Company s business network spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia and North America. In the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn as the Company lost ground as a trading firm, but founded an empire in India. Why did a merchant firm end up being an empire builder? Why did politics mesh so closely with the conduct of business in this time? This new account of the East India Company answers these questions by taking a fresh look at the world of Indian business. The story fits together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, and shows how trading in India changed the Company and how the Company changed Indian business.--Publisher's description