The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company: 1660-1760Cambridge University Press, 23 nov. 2006 - 628 pages The main contribution of the work is to offer a comprehensive history of the English East India Company during the century 1660-1760. It also examines the commercial economy of the Asian countries in which the Company traded and its political relations with Asian princes. Finally, it is a study of business and economic decision-making under pre-modern conditions. The book is based on an extensive analysis of the quantitative and qualitative material available in the Company's archives. The data-processing of the quantitative evidence and its subsequent statistical analysis was carried out on a computer, and the book contains comprehensive tables on the volume and value of the Company's trade, prices of commercial goods, and on monetary and financial history. The extensive scope of the book and its consideration not only of the Company but of the economies in which it operated make it essential reading for all concerned with the economic history of the period, both of Europe and Asia. The techniques used in analysing the original data and their theoretical framework make it of methodological interest to economic historians. |
Table des matières
The international economy and the East India trade | 1 |
FIGURES | 12 |
The Companys decisionmaking and operational process | 24 |
The structure of early trade and the pattern | 41 |
Longterm trends and fluctuations 16601760 | 80 |
Total imports | 82 |
Price of ordinary rice in Bengal 171260 | 101 |
polynomial and linear trend | 107 |
Import of bulk goods | 329 |
Raw silk | 343 |
Coffee | 359 |
Imports from China | 385 |
Financial results | 411 |
Conclusion | 453 |
Notes on the statistical tables of the East India | 463 |
Timeseries analysis of the East India Companys | 477 |
Politics of trade | 109 |
Markets merchants and the Company | 131 |
The export of treasure and the monetary system | 153 |
Total textile orders | 162 |
The structure of country trade in Asia | 191 |
Trade routes and shipping | 201 |
English participation in country trade | 208 |
Export of European commodities | 215 |
The Company and the Indian textile industry | 237 |
The Companys trade in textiles | 277 |
Total textile imports | 286 |
weighted average | 293 |
Pepper | 313 |
imports | 480 |
The econometric estimation of the trading model | 484 |
The grouped list and the glossary of Indian | 500 |
The statistical tables of the Companys trade | 507 |
204 | 542 |
General glossary | 549 |
T W A I ix | 559 |
480 | 560 |
Short titles cited in the reference notes | 567 |
208 | 584 |
215 | 614 |
615 | |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Abstract of Letters annual areas Asia Asian Bantam Bengal Bombay bullion buyers Calcutta Canton capital cent China Chinese cloth coffee coins commercial commodities Company's exports Company's trade Coromandel cost price cotton Council Court of Committees Court of Directors Dacca December demand Despatch Book Despatches to England dividend Dutch East India Company East India trade eighteenth century English East India Europe European Factory Records Factory Records Surat February Fort St George George gold Gujarat Ibid imports Indies indigo industry investment January Kasimbazar Letters Received London Madras March merchants Mokha Mughal Mughal Empire November organisation Original Correspondence Ostend Company pepper period Persia political port production profits purchase raw silk re-export trade Received from Bombay Red Sea rise saltpetre selling settlements seventeenth century Seventeenth to eighteenth ships silver sold supercargoes supply Surat Table textiles tion trend volume weavers