The English Gentleman Merchant At Work

Author : Søren Mentz
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8772899093

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The English Gentleman Merchant at Work by Søren Mentz Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8763508230

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The English gentleman merchant at work by Søren Mentz Pdf

Author : Richard Grassby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032529516

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The English Gentleman in Trade by Richard Grassby Pdf

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 : Miles Ogborn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226620428

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Indian Ink by Miles Ogborn Pdf

A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative trading voyages in the early seventeenth century to the foundation of an empire in Bengal in the late eighteenth century, Miles Ogborn takes readers into the scriptoria, ships, offices, print shops, coffeehouses, and palaces to investigate the forms of writing needed to exert power and extract profit in the mercantile and imperial worlds. Interpreting the making and use of a variety of forms of writing in script and print, Ogborn argues that material and political circumstances always undermined attempts at domination through the power of the written word. Navigating the juncture of imperial history and the history of the book, Indian Ink uncovers the intellectual and political legacies of early modern trade and empire and charts a new understanding of the geography of print culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004231443

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Working on Labor by Anonim Pdf

This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor. The essays deal with five major themes: the production of specific commodities or services (diamonds, indigo, cigarettes, mail delivery by road runners); occupational groups (informal street vendors, prostitutes, soldiers, white-collar workers in the Dutch East India Company, VOC); geographical and social mobility (career opportunities on non-Dutch officers in the VOC, immigration into early-modern Holland; the influence of migrants on labor productivity; income differentials as migration incentives); contexts of labor relations (late medieval labor laws, subsistence labor and female paid labor, Russian peasant-migrant laborers, diverging political trajectories of cane-sugar industries); and the origins of labor-history libraries and archives.

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Bernd-Stefan Grewe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107108325

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Luxury in Global Perspective by Karin Hofmeester,Bernd-Stefan Grewe Pdf

Machine generated contents note: Luxury and global history Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester; 1. Precious things in motion: luxury and the circulation of jewels in Mughal India Kim Siebenhuner; 2. Diamonds as a global luxury commodity Karin Hofmeester; 3. Gold in twentieth-century India - a luxury? Bernd-Stefan Grewe; 4. Chinese porcelain local and global context: the imperial connection Anne Gerritsen; 5. Luxury or commodity? The success of Indian cotton cloth in the first global age Giorgio Riello; 6. The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana: a local luxury good with global roots Silvia Ruschak; 7. From Venice to East Africa: history, uses and meanings of glass beads Karin Pallaver; 8. Imports and autarky: tortoiseshell in early modern Japan Martha Chaiklin; 9. Tickling and klicking the ivories - the metamorphosis of a global commodity in the nineteenth century Jonas Kranzer; 10. The conservation of luxury: safari hunting and the consumption of wildlife in twentieth-century East Africa Bernhard Gissibl; 11. Luxury as a global phenomenon: concluding remarks Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester

Author : Maxine Berg,Felicia Gottmann,Hanna Hodacs,Chris Nierstrasz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137403940

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Goods from the East, 1600-1800 by Maxine Berg,Felicia Gottmann,Hanna Hodacs,Chris Nierstrasz Pdf

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.

Author : Jessica Hanser
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : China
ISBN : 9780300236088

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Mr. Smith Goes to China by Jessica Hanser Pdf

An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders--George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras--and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China.

Author : John Darwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141992808

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Unlocking the World by John Darwin Pdf

From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the rampaging expansion of Europeans and Americans on a scale previously unimaginable. Unlocking the World is the captivating history of the great port cities which emerged as the bridgeheads of this new steam-driven economy, reshaping not just the trade and industry of the regions around them but their culture and politics as well. They were the agents of what we now call 'globalization', but their impact and influence, and the reactions they provoked, were far from predictable. Nor were they immune to the great upheavals in world politics across the 'steam century'. This book is global history at its very best. Packed with fascinating case histories (from New Orleans to Montreal, Bombay to Singapore, Calcutta to Shanghai), individual stories and original ideas, Darwin's book allows us, for better or worse, to see the modern age taking shape.

Author : Liam Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781857465

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Dragons by Liam Byrne Pdf

Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by military men. DRAGONS tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England's economy via trade with the New World, Liam Byrne traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas Pitt, saviour of the East India Company; financier Nathan Rothschild, creator of the modern bond market; William Lever, brand-builder, philanthropist, and creator of Britain's first great multinational; and John Spedan Lewis, founder of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. At the start of the 21st century Britain remains a major economic power. DRAGONS is both a rousing celebration of British business genius and a fascinatingly informative narrative of a neglected but essential strand of our island's story.

Author : Claire Jowitt,Craig Lambert,Steve Mentz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000075762

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The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800 by Claire Jowitt,Craig Lambert,Steve Mentz Pdf

This book has been nominated for The Mountbatten Award for Best Book in the Maritime Media Awards 2021. The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field. Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of oceanic ‘mastery’ during the early modern period have been replaced by newer global ideas. This comprehensive volume challenges underlying assumptions by balancing its assessment of the consequences and accomplishments of European navigators in the era of Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan, with an awareness of the sophistication and maritime expertise in Asia, the Arab world, and the Americas. By imparting riveting new stories and global perceptions of maritime history and culture, the contributors provide readers with fresh insights concerning early modern entanglements between humans and the vast, unpredictable ocean. With maritime studies growing and the ocean’s health in decline, this volume is essential reading for academics and students interested in the historicization of the ocean and the ways early modern cultures both conceptualized and utilized seas.

Author : Elisabeth Heijmans
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004414402

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The Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686-1746) by Elisabeth Heijmans Pdf

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 : Felicia Gottmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000353808

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Commercial Cosmopolitanism? by Felicia Gottmann Pdf

This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern period. Cosmopolitanism is not only a philosophical ideal: for many centuries it has also been an everyday practice across the globe. The early modern era saw hitherto unprecedented levels of economic interconnectedness. States, societies, and individuals reacted with a mixture of commercial idealism and commercial anxiety, seeking at once to exploit new opportunities for growth whilst limiting its disruptive effects. In highlighting the range of commercial cosmopolitan practices that grew out of early modern globalisation, the book demonstrates that it provided robust alternatives to the universalising western imperial model of the later period. Deploying a number of interdisciplinary methodologies, the kind of ‘methodological cosmopolitanism’ that Ulrich Beck has called for, chapters provide agency-centred evaluations of the risks and opportunities inherent in the ambiguous role of the cosmopolitan, who, often playing on and mobilising a number of identities, operated in between and outside of different established legal, social, and cultural systems. The book will be important reading for students and scholars working at the intersection of economic, global, and cultural history.

Author : Jan Lucassen,Tine De Moor,Jan Luiten van Zanden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521737656

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The Return of the Guilds: Volume 16 by Jan Lucassen,Tine De Moor,Jan Luiten van Zanden Pdf

Using recent approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history, this volume analyses guilds in the period 500-1700 AD.

Author : Ruby Maloni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000373233

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The Route to European Hegemony by Ruby Maloni Pdf

The advent of the Europeans was crucial in transforming the contours of Maritime Asia. The commercial situation in the Indian Ocean was impacted in many ways over the longue duree from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. To offset the adverse balance of trade and to maximize profits, the Europeans imposed their own coercive and monopolistic systems along the existing trade routes. Systematic exploitation of economic opportunities in Asia by Europeans began with the coming of the Portuguese, followed by other European maritime powers. It culminated with Britannia ruling the Asian waters with warships and a strong merchant marine. A study of the operational and ideological motivations that propelled the European powers’ activities in the Indian Ocean can help to construct a coherent interpretation of the foundations of empire that were being laid, at first insidiously and later, aggressively. This book analyses the mechanism and implications of Europe’s sustained engagement in Intra-Asian trade which is as an essential context to the establishment of colonial empires. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.