The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London 1660-1740Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005 - 304 páginas During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, servants in the East India Company established a private English trading network that was successful and highly competitive. How was this development maintained seeing that the group of private merchants was constantly changing? The answer must be found in the close ties connecting Madras with the City of London. London was the financial centre of the British Empire as well as the generator of overseas expansion. Colonial societies in the West Indies and North America were economically and socially dependent upon the metropolis and so was Madras. This book places the activities of the private merchants in Madras within the framework of the first British Empire. It focuses on a hitherto neglected field of study, uncovering a private trading network, a diaspora, built on gentlemanly capitalism, trust and ethnicity. |
Contenido
68 | 8 |
The East India Companys Trading Privileges | 21 |
The Age of Contained Conflict | 35 |
Commercial Development in England 16601740 | 49 |
The Emerging Fusion between the Landed Class and | 64 |
Capital Brought out from England by Company Servants | 78 |
Patronage | 229 |
Chapter Seven | 261 |
The British Empire as a Cultural Unity | 276 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Arasaratnam arrived Asia Asian Asian trading world Bengal bills of exchange BM Add MSS Book of William Captain cent China City of London commercial sector Company servants Company's Coromandel Coast Correspondence of Robert Correspondence of Thomas cultural diamond merchants diamond trade diaspora directors dispatched dividends East India Company economic Edward Harrison eighteenth century Elihu Yale elite English merchants established European Evance Fort St David Fort St George fortune Foundation for Empire governor historian I.B. Watson important Indian merchants interlopers investment January John Chomley Joseph Collet K.N. Chaudhuri Letter Book loans long-distance trade LRO Monson MSS lucrative Masulipatnam merchants in Madras mother country Mughal Empire Nathaniel Chomley NYCRO ZCG OIOC OIOC MSS overseas pagodas period persons Pitt's political remit respondentias Robert Nightingale rupees Scattergood seventeenth century ship silver social society source material St George structure Subrahmanyam supercargo Thomas Pitt tion transactions voyage William Monson
Referencias a este libro
Emporium of the World: the Merchants of London 1660-1800 Perry Gauci Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |