Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles write by Chris Nierstrasz. This book was released on 2015-09-22. Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Small Things in the Eighteenth Century
Small Things in the Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Small Things in the Eighteenth Century write by Chloe Wigston Smith. This book was released on 2022-09-29. Small Things in the Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptness or the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking mobility of small things: how fans, coins, rings, and pottery could, for instance, carry political, philosophical, and cultural concepts into circumscribed spaces. From the decorative and playful to the useful and performative, such small things as tea caddies, wampum beads, and drawings of ants negotiated larger political, cultural, and scientific shifts as they transported aesthetic and cultural practices across borders, via nationalist imagery, gift exchange, and the movement of global goods.
Silk and Tea in the North
Silk and Tea in the North - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Silk and Tea in the North write by Hanna Hodacs. This book was released on 2016-05-17. Silk and Tea in the North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century. It is a global history exploring the exchange of silver for goods in Canton. It is also a European history studying the wholesale market for Asian goods in Gothenburg and Copenhagen, the formation of taste and the impact of fashion in the blending of tea and the assortments of colours on wrought silk destined for markets across Europe. Linking material history to political economy and the histories of science, this book ends on the threshold of the nineteenth century, the rise of the second British Empire in Asia, and the creation of synthetic dyes in Europe.
Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa
Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa write by Kazuo Kobayashi. This book was released on 2019-06-10. Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy. It explores their demand for Indian cotton textiles and how their consumption shaped patterns of global trade, influencing economies and businesses from Western Europe to South Asia. In turn, the book examines how cotton textile production in southern India responded to this demand. Through this perspective of a south-south economic history, the study foregrounds African agency and considers the lasting impact on production and exports in South Asia. It also considers how European commercial and imperial expansion provided a complex web of networks, linking West African consumers and Indian weavers. Crucially, it demonstrates the emergence of the modern global economy.
Cotton in Context
Cotton in Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cotton in Context write by Kim Siebenhüner. This book was released on 2019-09-16. Cotton in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. - While cotton was a world-changing good in the early modern period, for producers, merchants, and consumers, it was but one of many different fabrics. This volume explores this dichotomy by contextualizing cotton within its contemporary culture of textiles. In doing, it focuses on a long, under-researched region: the German-speaking world, particularly Switzerland, which transformed into one of the most prolific European regions for the production of printed cottons in the eighteenth century. Sixteen contributions investigate the (globally entangled) history of Indiennes, silk, wool, and embroideries, giving new insights into the manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of textiles between 1500 and 1900.
