Merchants, companies, and trade: Europe and Asia in the early modern era

Written by well-known scholars, this book raises pertinent questions and takes up alternate perspectives on the growth and development of international trade between Europe and Asia, especially India, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through a comparative and comprehensive study of merchant...

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Weitere Verfasser: Chaudhury, Sushil (HerausgeberIn), Morineau, Michel (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1999
Schriftenreihe:Studies in modern capitalism
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Zusammenfassung:Written by well-known scholars, this book raises pertinent questions and takes up alternate perspectives on the growth and development of international trade between Europe and Asia, especially India, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through a comparative and comprehensive study of merchant communities, markets and commodities the individual authors argue, contrary to conventional views, that Asian merchants were in no way inferior to Europeans in terms of their commercial operations and business acumen. The book emphasizes the continuing and growing importance of India's overland trade, even in the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, traces the little-known world of Armenian merchants, the hitherto obscure, but voluminous, Indian trade with the Ottoman Empire, and by unearthing new evidence, demonstrates that the export activity of Asian merchants through the overland route from Bengal was higher, in fact, than the combined total of European exports
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 330 pages)
ISBN:9780511599620
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511599620

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