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Silk and tea in the north : Scandinavian trade and the market for Asian goods in eighteenth-century Europe /
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 g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Europe's Asian centuries.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Colour Plates; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Global, European and Scandinavian Histories and the East India Trade; Following tea and silk to the North; Global history and the Scandinavian Eurasian trade; Early-modern consumption in Europe and Scandinavia; Useful knowledge, material culture and change; Outline of the book; 1 The Scandinavian Trade with China; Excitement, speculations and rumours; Histories of the Scandinavian East India companies; The same but different; Overlapping sources.
- 2 Dusty, Ready-blended Tea from the North; Scandinavian smuggled goods and the British tea market; Swift dealings greased by silver; Assessing, negotiating and blending tea like the Swedes; Packing and tracking the cargo; Competition and transparency on the European tea market; A European taste convergence; Conclusion; 3 A Colourful Cargo for a Motley People; Silk and European fashion; Chinese silk close up; Irregular and diverging; Controversial populuxe; Colours by name; Fluctuating colours and fixed assortments; Conclusion; 4 Transferring and Substituting Tea and Colours; Inventing Canton.
- Kings tea and Cape tea; From China to India, via Sweden; Global dyes and local colours; Universal colours and synthetic dyes; Conclusion; 5 Conclusion
- New Chronologies and Geographies; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Index.