Goods from the East, 1600–1800

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies

Chapter 3 Spirited Transactions. The Morals and Materialities of Trade Contacts between the Dutch, the British and the Malays (1596–1619)

Chapter 4 The Indigo Trade of the English East India Company in the Seventeenth Century: Challenges and Opportunities

Chapter 5 The Orient and the Dawn of Western Industrialization: Armenian Calico Printers from Constantinople in Marseilles (1669–1686)

Chapter 6 Europe-China-Europe: The Transmission of the Craft of Painted Enamel in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Chapter 7 Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Chapter 8 ‘The Merest Shadows of a Commodity’: Indian Muslins for European Markets 1750–1800

Chapter 9 The Eurasian Diamond Trade in the Eighteenth Century: A Balanced Model of Complementary Markets

Chapter 10 British Private Trade Networks and Metropolitan Connections in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 11 Worlds Apart? Merchants, Mariners, and the Organization of the Private Trade in Chinese Export Wares in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 12 The Dutch and the English East India Companies Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative View

Chapter 13 Becoming Consumers: Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Native-born Middling Households in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam

Chapter 14 ‘Exotic’ Goods? Far-Eastern Commodities for the French Market in India in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 15 Selling India and China in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Chapter 16 Textile Furies — the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cottons 1686–1759

Chapter 17 The Popularization of Tea: East India Companies, Private Traders, Smugglers and the Consumption of Tea in Western Europe, 1700–1760

Chapter 18 Chests, Tubs and Lots of Tea — the European Market for Chinese Tea and the Swedish East India Company, c. 1730–1760

Chapter 19 A North Europe World of Tea: Scotland and the Tea Trade, c.1690–c.1790

Chapter 20 Arriving to a Set Table: The Integration of Hot Drinks in the Urban Consumer Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Low Countries

Chapter 21 For the Home and the Body: Dutch and Indian Ways of Early Modern Consumption