Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century
Regular price
€192.20
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Holden Furber
A01=Rosane Rocher
American Trade
archival research methods
Asian maritime commerce
Author_Holden Furber
Author_Rosane Rocher
Bombay Presidency
Category=KCLT
Category=KCZ
Category=NHD
Category=NHF
clandestine trading practices
colonial economic history
eighteenth century India trade analysis
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
European chartered companies
Overland Route
transnational trade networks
Product details
- ISBN 9780860786191
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 150 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 20 Mar 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the first time, documents the late Holden Furber’s discovery that private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the ’country trade’ between Asian ports, played a major role in the European expansion in India before the age of empire. Furber vividly describes how individual entrepreneurs used their positions with East India Companies to build personal fortunes, and how these private endeavours, for which the English East India Company gave more latitude, ultimately worked to the benefit of British power in India. One of the continuing strengths of his work remains its use of archival sources, not only British, but also other archival records, in particular those of The Netherlands and Scandinavia. The essays also highlight important connections, between chartered and ’clandestine’ trade, and piracy; of multinational private investments in the increasingly dominant East India Company; and between the trade of the Indian Ocean and Pacific worlds.
Holden Furber, formerly University of Pennsylvania, USA Edited by Rosane Rocher
