Trading Eurasia, 1600-1800
Goods from the East
Edited by Maxine Berg
with
Felicia Gottmann, Hanna Hodacs, and
Chris Nierstrasz
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Table of the Contents
1
Maxine Berg
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Pages
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4-13
Introduction: Europe’s Trade with Asia
2
Jan de Vries
Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading
Companies.
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Section 1
Maxine Berg
Romain Bertrand
4.
Ghulam Nadri
5.
Olivier Raveux
6
Xiaodong Xu
7.
Dagmar Schäfer
8.
Maxine Berg
Objects of Encounter and Transfers of Knowledge
Section Introduction
Spirited Transactions. The Morals and Materialities of Trade
Contacts between the Dutch, the British, and the Malays
(1596-1619)
The Indigo Trade of the English East India Company in the
Seventeenth Century: Challenges and Opportunities
The Orient and the dawn of Western industrialization:
Armenian calico printers from Constantinople in Marseilles
(1669-1686)
Europe – China – Europe: The Transmission of the Craft of
Painted Enamel in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
Indian Weavers and East India Company Markets: Surat and
Dhaka in the 1790s
9.
Section 2
Chris Nierstrasz
Tijl Vanneste
10.
Timothy Davies
11.
Meike Fellinger
12.
Om Prakash
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Section 3
Felicia Gottmann
Anne McCants
14.
Kevin Le Doudic
15.
Natacha Coquery
Private Trade and Networks
Section Introduction
The Eurasian Diamond Trade in the Eighteenth Century: a
Balanced Model of Complementary Markets
British Private Trade Networks and Metropolitan
Connections in the Eighteenth Century
Worlds Apart? Merchants, Mariners, and the Organization of
the Private Trade in Chinese Export Wares in EighteenthCentury Europe
The Dutch and the English East India Company’s Trade in
Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth
Century: A Comparative View
Consuming East and West
Section Introduction
Becoming Consumers: Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Nativeborn Middling Households in 18th Century Amsterdam
‘Exotic’ Goods? Far-Eastern Commodities for the French
Market in India in the Eighteenth Century
Selling India and China in the Eighteenth-Century Paris
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54-56
57-72
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93-105
106-126
127-139
140-160
161-164
165-184
185-201
202-218
219-233
234-235
236-259
260-280
281-290
16.
Felicia Gottmann
Textile Furies – the French State and the Retail and
Consumption of Asian Cottons 1686-1759
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Section 4
Hanna Hodacs
Chris Nierstraz
A Taste for Tea
Section Introduction
The Popularisation of Tea: East India Companies, Private
Traders, Smugglers and the Consumption of Tea in Western
Europe, 1700-1760
Chests, Tubs, and Lots of Tea - the European Market for
Chinese Tea and the Swedish East India Company, c. 17301760
A North Europe World of Tea: Scotland & the Tea Trade, ca.
1690- ca.1790
Arriving to a Set Table: The Integration of Hot Drinks in the
Urban Consumer Culture of the Eighteenth-Century
Southern Low Countries
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Hanna Hodacs &
Leos Müller
19.
Andrew Mackillop
20.
Bruno Blondé &
Wouter Ryckbosch
21.
Conclusion
Jos Gommans
The Indian Ocean World
For the Home and the Body: Dutch and Indian Ways of Early
Modern Consumption
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