Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750

Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 0521525977
ISBN-13 : 9780521525978
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 by : Stephen Frederic Dale

In this remarkable 1994 work of comparative economic history, Stephen Dale studies the activities and economic significance of the Indian mercantile communities which traded in Iran, Central Asia and Russia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author uses Russian sources, hitherto largely ignored, to show that these merchants represented part of the hegemonic trade diaspora of the Indian world economy, thus challenging the conventional interpretation of world economic history that European merchants overwhelmed their Asian counterparts in the early modern era. The book not only demonstrates the vitality of Indian mercantile capitalism, but also offers a unique insight into the social characteristics of an Indian expatriate trading community in the Volga-Caspian port of Astrakhan.

The Political Economy of Merchant Empires

The Political Economy of Merchant Empires
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 518
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ISBN-10 : 0521574641
ISBN-13 : 9780521574648
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Economy of Merchant Empires by : James D. Tracy

This book focuses on why Europe became the dominant economic force in global trade between 1450 and 1750.

Eighteenth-Century Gujarat

Eighteenth-Century Gujarat
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9789004172029
ISBN-13 : 9004172025
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Gujarat by : Ghulam A. Nadri

The eighteenth century in South Asian history is a period of great dynamism and a critical phase in the historical trajectory of the subcontinent. This book focuses on the merchants and manufacturers of Gujarat, who amidst complex political developments succeeded in preserving their autonomy and freedom in the market place. By spotting economic growth in the late eighteenth century, this study rejects the constructed dualism between a seventeenth century of great progress and an eighteenth century of chaos and decline.

The Merchants of Siberia

The Merchants of Siberia
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9781501703966
ISBN-13 : 150170396X
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Merchants of Siberia by : Erika L. Monahan

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well over a century. These include the Filat'evs, who were among Russia’s most illustrious merchant elite; the Shababins, Muslim immigrants who mastered local and long-distance trade while balancing private endeavors with service to the Russian state; and the Noritsyns, traders of more modest status who worked sometimes for themselves, sometimes for bigger merchants, and participated in the emerging Russia-China trade. Monahan demonstrates that trade was a key component of how the Muscovite state sought to assert its authority in the Siberian periphery. The state’s recognition of the benefits of commerce meant that Russian state- and empire-building in Siberia were characterized by accommodation; in this diverse borderland, instrumentality trumped ideology and the Orthodox state welcomed Central Asian merchants of Islamic faith. This reconsideration of Siberian trade invites us to rethink Russia’s place in the early modern world. The burgeoning market at Lake Yamysh, an inner-Eurasian trading post along the Irtysh River, illuminates a vibrant seventeenth-century Eurasian caravan trade even as Europe-Asia maritime trade increased. By contextualizing merchants and places of Siberian trade in the increasingly connected economies of the early modern period, Monahan argues that, commercially speaking, Russia was not the "outlier" that most twentieth-century characterizations portrayed.

Goods from the East, 1600-1800

Goods from the East, 1600-1800
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9781137403940
ISBN-13 : 1137403942
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Goods from the East, 1600-1800 by : Maxine Berg

Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.

The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947

The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9781139431279
ISBN-13 : 1139431277
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947 by : Claude Markovits

Claude Markovits tells the story of two groups of Hindu merchants from the towns of Shikarpur and Hyderabad in the province of Sind. Basing his account on previously neglected archival sources, the author charts the development of these communities, from the pre-colonial period through colonial conquest and up to independence, describing how they came to control trading networks throughout the world. While the book focuses on the trade of goods, money and information from Sind to the widely dispersed locations of Kobe, Panama, Bukhara and Cairo, it also throws light on the nature of trading diasporas from South Asia in their interaction with the global economy. This is a sophisticated and accessible book, written by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field. It will appeal to scholars of South Asia, as well as to colonial historians and to students of religion.

Unbroken Landscape

Unbroken Landscape
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106014516881
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Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Unbroken Landscape by : Frank Perlin

This book first analyses the material and cultural character of the production and marketing of commodities and payment forms across the Euro-Asian Continuum - the 'second' or 'unbroken' landscape - taking up these categories of objects as things communicated and transmitted by producers and merchants. In this the book complements and continues the work collected in the author's earlier volume. Given received conceptions of culture and society in the social sciences contradicting such an empirical approach, the author then addresses several central methodological and epistemological issues, notably that of empirical complexity. His concern is to establish the existence of a knowledge-world and a world of identities that transcends current emphases upon nation, language and nationalism, and to consider the methodological principles necessary for reconstructing it.

Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road

Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road
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Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781439867259
ISBN-13 : 1439867259
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road by : Çağrı Haksöz

Historically important trade routes for goods of all kinds for more than 3000 years, the Silk Road has once again come to prominence. Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road: Strategy, Performance, and Risk present emerging supply chain practices from the Silk Road regions that include China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia, Lebanon,

Waves of Prosperity

Waves of Prosperity
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Publisher : Robinson
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : 9781472138996
ISBN-13 : 1472138996
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Waves of Prosperity by : Greg Clydesdale

When the Venetian merchant, Marco Polo, first arrived in Dynastic China he was faced with a society far advanced of anything he had encountered in Europe. The ports were filled with commodities from all over the eastern world, while new technology was driving the economy forward. It would take another 400 years before European trade in the Atlantic eclipsed the Pacific markets. From China's phenomenally successful Sung dynasty (c. AD 960-1279), Cargoes reveals the power of the Mughals merchants of Gujarat, who built an empire so powerful that, even in the 17th century, the richest man in the world was a Gujarat trader. It was not until the opening up of the spice routes and the discovery of South American gold that medieval Iberia came to the fore. It was only then that the Atlantic Empire of the west came to dominate world trade, first the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century, then the British Empire in the age of the Industrial Revolution, American supremacy in the twentieth century, and the development of post-war Japan. Along the way Greg Clydesdale looks at the parallel lives and ideas of merchants and explorers, missionaries, kings, bankers and emperors. He shows how great trading nations rise on a wave of technological and financial innovation and how in that success lies the cause of their inevitable decline.