Rivalry for trade in tea and textiles : the English and Dutch East India Companies (1700-1800) /

Rivalry for trade in tea and textiles : the English and Dutch East India Companies (1700-1800) / Chris Nierstrasz.

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In Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, Holden Furber attributed the success and failure of East India Companies to the way they organised their trade in Asia. This new study expands this focus to cover the East India Companies' global empires in a comparison of the rivalry between the Dutch E...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Nierstrasz, Chris, 1978- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:Europe's Asian centuries.
Subjects:
East India Company > History > 18th century.
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie > History > 18th century.
East India Company.
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
Tea trade > Europe > History > 18th century.
Textile industry > Europe > History > 18th century.
Tea trade.
Textile industry.
Europe > Commerce > Asia > History > 18th century.
Asia > Commerce > Europe > History > 18th century.
Asia.
Europe.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • PART I: IMPERFECT MONOPOLIES
  • 1. Imperfect monopoly in trade
  • 1.1 Mix of commodities
  • 1.2 Monopoly and private trade
  • 2. Imperfect monopoly in Europe
  • 2.1 Silver and taxation
  • 2.2 Re-export of Asian commodities
  • 3. Imperfect monopoly in Asia
  • 3.1 Beyond Silver
  • 3.2 Intra-Asian trade and Empire
  • 3.3 Empire and the home-state
  • Conclusion
  • PART II: RIVALRY FOR TEA: EMPIRES AND PRIVATE TRADE
  • 1. Tea and monopoly
  • 1.1 Competition for monopoly (1685-1730)
  • 1.2 A Competitive Market (1730-1790)
  • 2. Empires and Tea
  • 2.1 Direct trade and empire
  • 2.2 EIC intra-Asian trade and English country trade
  • 2.3 British Empire and Canton
  • 3. Private trade and tea
  • 3.1 The 'Discovery' of Tea
  • 3.2 Private Trade and Batavia
  • 3.3 Private trade in tea as a tool of competition
  • 3.4 English Private Trade in Tea
  • Conclusion
  • PART III: POPULARISATION OF TEA: SMUGGLERS AND DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF TEA
  • 1. Smuggling and Britain
  • 1.1 The problem of contraband tea
  • 1.2 An answer to smuggling
  • 2. Smuggling and America
  • 2.1 Unnoticed smuggling
  • 2.2 British Empires connect
  • 3. Selections of tea
  • 3.1 Different varieties, different prices
  • 3.2 A different selection of tea
  • Conclusion
  • PART IV RIVALRY FOR TEXTILES: A GLOBAL MARKET
  • 1. Europe and India
  • 1.1 Imports of Indian Textiles
  • 1.2 Textiles and Mercantilism
  • 2. Textiles and Empire in Asia
  • 2.1 Intra-Asian trade and textiles
  • 2.2 Balancing Asia and Europe
  • 2.3 English dominance
  • Conclusion
  • PART V: THE CONSUMPTION OF TEXTILES: RETURN CARGOES AND VARIETY
  • 1. Different regions, different textiles
  • 2. Competition for textiles
  • 2.1 Muslins
  • 2.2 White Calicoes
  • 2.3 Coloured Calicoes
  • 3. Imports of Indian textiles and the Industrial Revolution
  • Conclusion.

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