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Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834

Door Anthony Farrington

Categorie
Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer
#292531
Titel
Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834
Auteur
Farrington, Anthony
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : The British Library
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
0712347569
ISBN13
9780712347563
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrations in colour and some in b/w.
Samenvatting


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 imported from these lands including silks, porcelain, tea, herbs and spices, wallpaper, and furniture. The East India Company was founded in 1600 to consolidate and exploit these markets, and over its history grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into 'the grandest society of merchants in the universe.' As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire.

This highly illustrated new book... (Lees verder) 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. The book shows the human cost of creating this early 'global market' and how the British trading companies' activities displayed some of the worst aspects of colonialism. On the positive side, the book presents the importance of Asia in the making of Europe, celebrates the cultural exchange which took place through trade in Asia, and examines the continuing influence of Asian culture on British life today.
Pagina's
128
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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