Private Enterprise and the China Trade : Merchants and Markets in Europe, 1700-1750

Private Enterprise and the China Trade Merchants and Markets in Europe, 1700-1750

"This book examines the European commercial landscape of the early China trade, c.1700-1750. It looks at the foundational period of Sino-European commerce and explores a world of private enterprise beneath the surface of the official East India Company structures. Using rich private trade recor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Brescius, Meike von, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv [2022]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Library of economic history ; Volume 16.
Materias:
Free enterprise.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures and Tables
  • Introduction: Contextualising the Early China Trade in Europe
  • 1 Commercial Polymaths: Supercargoes and Interlopers in the China Trade
  • 2 Trading Conditions in Canton
  • 3 Private Trade and Monopoly Structures: A Network Perspective
  • 4 The Archives of Private Trade: How to Assess the (In)visible
  • 5 Source Material
  • 6 Structure of the Study
  • Chapter 1 British Interlopers in the Canton Trade: A Group Portrait
  • 1 Charles Irvine: Canton Supercargo, Wholesale Trader, Family Patron
  • 2 Irvine's Wider Network
  • 3 Ways into the China Trade
  • 4 New Companies and Old India Traders: The Demise of the Ostend and the Rise of the Swedish East India Company
  • 5 Britons Abroad, Interlopers at Home: Transnational Careers in the Making
  • 6 Flexible Citizens: Nomads of the Canton Trade
  • Chapter 2 Forging Markets: The European Re-Export Trade in Chinese Goods
  • 1 Private Trade: Regulations and Realities
  • 2 The Companies' Profits from Private Trade
  • 3 Public Sales, Private Agreements
  • 4 The Re-Export Trade
  • Chapter 3 Treasures in the Cabin: Chinese Export Wares and the Special Commissions Trade
  • 1 Chinese Export Wares and the Market for Private Commissions
  • 2 Typology of Commissioners in the China Trade
  • 3 Families and Consumers Associated with the East India Companies
  • 4 Commanders and Supercargoes as Consumers, Suppliers and Entrepreneurs
  • 5 Designs Made for Maritime Mobility
  • 6 Making Room for Private Trade
  • Chapter 4 European Geographies of Private Trade: Cadiz as a Cross-Company Hub
  • 1 Port Cities, Merchant Communities and the Study of Networks
  • 2 The Vanguards
  • 3 Flows of Silver from a Network Perspective
  • 4 The Cadiz Merchant Community and the China Trade
  • 5 Cadiz as an Entrepôt.
  • 6 Company Recruitments and Passenger Traffic to China
  • 7 Financing the Private Trade
  • 8 Sea Loans and the Cross-Company Money Market
  • 9 Entangled Cities of the China Trade: Cadiz, Antwerp and Amsterdam
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Manuscript Sources
  • Europe
  • United States
  • Printed Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Digital Resources
  • Index.

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