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Author |
: Søren Mentz |
Publisher |
: Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8772899093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788772899091 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English Gentleman Merchant at Work by : Søren Mentz
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, servants in the East India Company established a private English trading network that was successful and highly competitive. How was this development maintained seeing that the group of private merchants was constantly changing? The answer must be found in the close ties connecting Madras with the City of London. London was the financial centre of the British Empire as well as the generator of overseas expansion. Colonial societies in the West Indies and North America were economically and socially dependent upon the metropolis and so was Madras. This book places the activities of the private merchants in Madras within the framework of the first British Empire. It focuses on a hitherto neglected field of study, uncovering a private trading network, a diaspora, built on gentlemanly capitalism, trust and ethnicity.
Author |
: Søren Mentz |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8763508230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788763508230 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English gentleman merchant at work by : Søren Mentz
Author |
: Richard Grassby |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015032529516 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English Gentleman in Trade by : Richard Grassby
In a pre-industrial economy dominated by small family firms, economic growth could not have occurred without the skill, persistence, and initiative of individual businessmen like Sir Dudley North. North was not only a celebrated merchant and economist, but an important and controversial servant of Charles II and James II. Richard Grassby exploits the extraordinary wealth of documentation available to establish how North made a fortune in the Levant commodity trade and through usury. He explores his character, beliefs, and intentions, and the diverse technical and personal reasons for his success. His works, which are here published for the first time, reveal the breadth of his intellectual interests.
Author |
: Jan Lucassen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521737656 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521737654 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Return of the Guilds: Volume 16 by : Jan Lucassen
Using recent approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history, this volume analyses guilds in the period 500-1700 AD.
Author |
: Elisabeth Heijmans |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2019-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004414402 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004414401 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686-1746) by : Elisabeth Heijmans
In The Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Expansion (1686-1746) Elisabeth Heijmans places directors and their connections at the centre of the developments and operations of French overseas companies.
Author |
: Trevor Burnard |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 785 |
Release |
: 2024 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197622605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197622607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' War by : Trevor Burnard
"This handbook contains 38 essays that provide up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the war-Europe, South Asia, and the Americas-treating each theater as distinct from each other but often linked in ways that helped create a new geopolitics from the 1760s onward. Chapters trace the causes of the war in the interior of America; outline the triumphs of Britain and Prussia in fierce fighting across Europe; and explain how the British under the East India Company came to play an important role in South Asian politics and commerce. The handbook pays due attention to military conflict but does much more than this. It investigates social, cultural, and intellectual developments in a crucial period of reorientation during the mid-eighteenth century. The handbook is notably diverse in its authorship, with leading scholars on the Seven Years' War from Europe and South Asia as well as Britain and North America, providing perspectives from many areas outside an Anglo-American frame. It treats the Seven Years' War as a world-transformative event: important not only in its own right-in shaping commerce, politics, science, art, demography, religion, and gender during the conflict-but also central to the evolving history of South Asia, Europe, and the Americas in the second half of the eighteenth century"--
Author |
: Chris Nierstrasz |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2012-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004234291 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004234292 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadow of the Company: The Dutch East India Company and Its Servants in the Period of Its Decline (1740-1796) by : Chris Nierstrasz
Chris Nierstrasz’ In the Shadow of the Company, offers us an insight into the relation between the Dutch East India Company and its servants as it slipped into decline. This relationship altered dramatically in the eighteenth century under internal and external pressures.
Author |
: Ghulam A. Nadri |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2009 |
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.
Author |
: Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2017-03-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674977556 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674977556 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Europe’s India by : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas. Traders were joined by ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars from Portugal, England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany, all hoping to learn about India for reasons as varied as their particular nationalities and professions. In the following centuries they produced a body of knowledge about India that significantly shaped European thought. Europe’s India tracks Europeans’ changing ideas of India over the entire early modern period. Sanjay Subrahmanyam brings his expertise and erudition to bear in exploring the connection between European representations of India and the fascination with collecting Indian texts and objects that took root in the sixteenth century. European notions of India’s history, geography, politics, and religion were strongly shaped by the manuscripts, paintings, and artifacts—both precious and prosaic—that found their way into Western hands. Subrahmanyam rejects the opposition between “true” knowledge of India and the self-serving fantasies of European Orientalists. Instead, he shows how knowledge must always be understood in relation to the concrete circumstances of its production. Europe’s India is as much about how the East came to be understood by the West as it is about how India shaped Europe’s ideas concerning art, language, religion, and commerce.
Author |
: Jeffrey A. Auerbach |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 489 |
Release |
: 2018-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192562319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192562312 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imperial Boredom by : Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated account suggests instead that boredom was central to the experience of empire. Combining individual stories of pain and perseverance with broader analysis, Professor Auerbach considers what it was actually like to sail to Australia, to serve as a soldier in South Africa, or to accompany a colonial official to the hill stations of India. He reveals that for numerous men and women, from explorers to governors, tourists to settlers, the Victorian Empire was dull and disappointing. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues, Imperial Boredom demonstrates that all across the empire, men and women found the landscapes monotonous, the physical and psychological distance from home debilitating, the routines of everyday life wearisome, and their work tedious and unfulfilling. The empires early years may have been about wonder and marvel, but the Victorian Empire was a far less exciting project. Many books about the British Empire focus on what happened; this book concentrates on how people felt.