Merchants, Companies and Trade

"This book is designed to change some of the entrenched historiography..." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

• List of contributors; Preface; Introduction Sushil Chaudhury and Michel Morineau; Part I. Asia, Especially India, Around 1500: 1. Of what world-system was pre-1500 'India' a part? Ravi Arvind Palat and Immanuel Wallerstein; 2. Trade in the Indian Ocean at the dawn of the sixteenth century Geneviève Bouchon; Part II. Routes, Markets and Merchants: 3. The route through Quandahar: the significance of the overland trade from India to the West in the seventeenth century Niels Steensgaard; 4. The Armenian merchant network: overall autonomy and local integration Michel Aghassian and Kéram Kévonian; 5. Commercial relations between India and the Ottoman Empire (late fifteenth to late eighteenth centuries): a few notes and hypotheses Gilles Veinstein; 6. Eastern and Western merchants from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Michel Morineau; 7. The other 'species' world: specification of commodities and moneys, and the knowledge-base of commerce, 1500–1900 Frank Perlin; Part III. European Presence in Asia: 8. The Portuguese and the Dutch in Asian maritime trade: a comparative analysis Om Prakash; 9. Competition or collaboration? Relations between the Dutch East India Company and Indian merchants around 1680 Femme S. Gaastra; 10. The French India Company and its trade in the eighteenth century Philippe Haudrère; 11. Sweden and India in the eighteenth century: Sweden's difficulty in gaining access to a crowded market C. Koninckx; 12. The ambitions of the Austrian Empire with reference to East India during the last quarter of the eighteenth century Helma Houtman-de Smedt; Part IV. Implications of Trade: Asia and Europe: 13. The Indian challenge: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Michel Morineau; 14. The changing pattern of British trade in Indian textiles, 1701–1757 Dietmar Rothermund; 15. French traders and India at the end of the eighteenth century Paul Butel; 16. The Asian merchants and companies in Bengal's export trade, circa mid-eighteenth century Sushil Chaudhury; Index.