The English East India Company: the study of an early joint-stock company 1600-1640
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Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations - whether located in the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, or the Far East - constituted areas not only of high culture but also of advanced economic development. They were the First World of human societies. This 1985 book examines one of the driving forces of that historical period: the long chain of oceanic trade which stretched from the South China Sea to the eastern Mediterranean. It also looks at the natural complement of the seaborne commerce, its counterpart in the caravan trade. Its main achievement is to show how socially determined demand derived from cultural habits and interpretations operated through the medium of market forces and relative prices. It points out the unique and limiting features of Asian commercial capitalism, and shows how the contribution of Asian merchants was valued universally, in reality if not legally and formally. Professor Chaudhuri's book, based on more than twenty years' research and reflection on pre-modern trade and civilisations, was a landmark in the analysis and interpretation of Asia's historical position and development
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 821-824
ISSN: 1469-8099
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 560-562
ISSN: 1471-6380
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 77-96
ISSN: 1469-8099
There can be few aspects of Indian studies more neglected than that of historical geography. Within this larger area of neglect, urban history occupies a special place. The indifference with which Indian historians have approached the urban heritage of the subcontinent is all the more difficult to understand because to contemporary European visitors, the merchants and other travellers, the towns and cities of Mughal India held a profound fascination. From the time of Tomé Pires and his highly perceptive Suma Oriental down to the end of the eighteenth century, stories of Indian travels and the accompanying descriptions of Mughal urban life continually entertained the popular literary audience. Not all of them understood or reported accurately what they saw. As the Scottish sea captain and country trader, Alexander Hamilton, who had an unrivalled knowledge of the sea ports and the coastal towns of India, pointed out with some candour, one great misfortune which attended the western travellers in India was their ignorance of the local languages. But the manifest contrast between the physical appearance of the European cities and those of Asia provoked some considerable and sensitive analysis of the nature of the urban processes in the two continents. Perhaps the most able and penetrating comments on the Mughal political, economic, and civic order came from the pen of the Dutch merchant, Francisco Pelsaert, and the French physician, François Bernier.
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 732-734
ISSN: 1539-2988
In: The Indian economic and social history review: IESHR, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 323-325
ISSN: 0973-0893
In: The Indian economic and social history review: IESHR, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 1-29
ISSN: 0973-0893
In: The economic history review, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 480
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 31-50
ISSN: 1469-8099
This paper stems from a dissatisfaction with the present state of historical writings on India's international economy in the nineteenth century. While the task of reducing the mass of literature available on the subject to a coherent and meaningful survey is a difficult and perhaps not a very fruitful exercise, it is rather easier to understand why such writings on Indian economic history in general and trade history in particular have remained confused and often internally contradictory.
In: The economic history review, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 345-363
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The economic history review, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 23-38
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The economic history review, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 496
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The economic history review, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 325
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 59, Heft 3, S. 513
ISSN: 1715-3379