Gillian Maclaine and his Business Network
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An elegantly written, handsomely produced volume [that] deserves a wide readership amongst business, imperial, global and Asian historians. * HISTORY * [An] empirically rich and analytically nuanced study [and] a valuable read for anyone who is interested in global histories of material circulation and exchange. * JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA * Knight offers an entrepreneur with real flesh and blood, whose fortunes were shaped as much by deep social and psychological motivations, religious and ethnic affiliations, personal relationships, and even marriage, as they were by dry, rational calculation. Knight makes business history accessible and enjoyable for audiences frequently daunted by the subject. * JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY *
INTRODUCTION: A SCOTS EMIGRE, IMPERIAL SYSTEMS AND GLOBAL COMMODITIES MACLAINE'S 'APPRENTICESHIP': THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE COTTON TRADE WITH ASIA, 1816-1820 A 'SCOTCH ADVENTURER': BATAVIA, COFFEE AND COLONIAL WARS, 1820-1827 THE PIVOTAL YEARS: 'MACLAINE WATSON', TREACHEROUS CHAINS, SICKNESS AND DEBT, 1827-1832 THE NETWORK TAKES SHAPE: CONNECTIONS, BUSINESS AND ASSOCIATES, 1832-1840 CONCLUSION: MACLAINE'S LEGACY, COMMODITIES AND TRADE ON A COLONIAL 'PERIPHERY', 1840-1964 Bibliography