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Notes on Contributors |
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2 Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies |
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Part I Objects of Encounter and Transfers of Knowledge |
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3 Spirited Transactions. The Morals and Materialities of Trade Contacts between the Dutch, the British and the Malays (1596--1619) |
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4 The Indigo Trade of the English East India Company in the Seventeenth Century: Challenges and Opportunities |
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5 The Orient and the Dawn of Western Industrialization: Armenian Calico Printers from Constantinople in Marseilles (1669--1686) |
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6 Europe--China--Europe: The Transmission of the Craft of Painted Enamel in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries |
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7 Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries |
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8 `The Merest Shadows of a Commodity': Indian Muslins for European Markets 1750--1800 |
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119 | (20) |
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Part II Private Trade and Networks |
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9 The Eurasian Diamond Trade in the Eighteenth Century: A Balanced Model of Complementary Markets |
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139 | (15) |
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10 British Private Trade Networks and Metropolitan Connections in the Eighteenth Century |
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11 Worlds Apart? Merchants, Mariners, and the Organization of the Private Trade in Chinese Export Wares in Eighteenth-Century Europe |
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12 The Dutch and the English East India Companies Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative View |
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Part III Consuming East and West |
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13 Becoming Consumers: Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Native-born Middling Households in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam |
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14 `Exotic' Goods? Far-Eastern Commodities for the French Market in India in the Eighteenth Century |
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15 Selling India and China in Eighteenth-Century Paris |
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229 | (15) |
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16 Textile Furies -- the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cottons 1686--1759 |
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244 | (19) |
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17 The Popularization of Tea: East India Companies, Private Traders, Smugglers and the Consumption of Tea in Western Europe, 1700--1760 |
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18 Chests, Tubs and Lots of Tea -- the European Market for Chinese Tea and the Swedish East India Company, c. 1730--1760 |
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19 A North Europe World of Tea: Scotland and the Tea Trade, c.1690--c.1790 |
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20 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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Conclusion The Indian Ocean World |
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21 For the Home and the Body: Dutch and Indian Ways of Early Modern Consumption |
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Select Bibliography: Suggested Further Reading |
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Index |
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