Nierstrasz Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles

The English and Dutch East India companies (1700–1800)
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-48653-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Europe's Asian Centuries

The rivalry for trade in tea and textiles between the English and Dutch East India companies is very much a global history. This trade is strongly connected to emblematic events such as the opening of Western trade with China, the Boston Tea Party, the establishment of British Empire in Bengal and the Industrial Revolution.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nierstrasz, Chris

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Nierstrasz, Lecturer at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, is the author of In the Shadow of the Company: The Dutch East India Company and its Servants in the Period of its Decline (1740-1796) (2012). He has also contributed to the editing of Goods from the East, 1600-1800 (2015) for the Europe's Asian Centuries project.