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European commercial enterprise in pre-colonial India /

European traders first appeared in India at the end of the fifteenth century and began exporting goods to Europe as well as to other parts of Asia. In a detailed analysis of the trading operations of European corporate enterprises such as the English and Dutch East India Companies, as well as those...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prakash, Om, 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Colección:New Cambridge history of India ; II, 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • India in the Indian Ocean trade, circa 1500
  • The Portuguese in India, 1500-1640
  • The European trading companies: exports from Europe and the generation of purchasing power in Asia
  • The companies in India: the politics and the economics of trade
  • Euro-Asian and intra-Asian trade: the phase of Dutch domination, 1600-1680
  • The VOC and the growing competition by the English and the French, 1680-1740
  • The supremacy of the English East India Company, 1740-1800
  • European trade and the Indian economy
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliographic Essay.