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Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800: Europe and the World in Age of Expansion, cartea 2

Autor Holden Furber
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 sep 1976
Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800 was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
This volume presents an account of European expansion in Asia through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the story of the rivalries of the East India companies and the growth of British maritime dominance which forged the Pax Britannica destined to keep Asia under European control until 1941. The author explains that it is called Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient because the few thousands of Europeans who built these empires thought of themselves primarily as merchants rather than as rulers.
The book consists of two parts, the first, narrative, the second, interpretive. The story of European commercial activity in the East is told in three chapters, the first ending with the Dutch conquest of Ceylon in 1656 and the reorganization and revival of the English East India Company as a permanent joint stock company under Oliver Cromwell's charter of 1657. The second chapter ends with the European peace settlement at Utrecht in 1713, and the third with the establishment of British preponderance in the East India trade at the close of the eighteenth century.
In the second part the author discusses the organization and structure of East India companies, the commodities in East India trade, the nature, growth, and development of the "country trade," and the relations between Europeans and Asians with some reference to the growth of European knowledge of Asia and the influence of the European presence in Asia on social history in both Asia and Europe.
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ISBN-13: 9780816608515
ISBN-10: 0816608512
Pagini: 428
Dimensiuni: 149 x 235 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:Minnesota Archi.
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
Seria Europe and the World in Age of Expansion


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Holden Furber was Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His other books include John Company at Work and Bombay Presidency in the Mid-Eighteenth Century.

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