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The English East India Company's silk enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850 : economy, empire and business /
This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal and presents the Company as a manufacturer rather than a trading body or political agent. Silk was one of the first globally traded commodities; its luxury status and potential to create tax revenues and em...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
Boydell Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Worlds of the East India Company ;
v. 16. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Measures and Currencies; Introduction: Companies, Political Economy and the Great Divergence; 1 The Early Modern Silk Industry, Trade and Mercantilism; 2 Empire, the English East India Company, and Bengal Raw Silk; 3 Bengal, Piedmont and the English East India Company; 4 The Bengal Silk Industry and the English East India Company; 5 Filatures and Performance in the Bengal Silk Industry; 6 The Bengal Silk Industry and British Laissez-Faire Policies
- 7 Bengal Raw Silk and British Demand in the Nineteenth CenturyConclusion; Appendix A Description of the Piedmontese Reeling Machine by Dionysius Lardner; Appendix B Average Prices of Bengal Raw Silk on the British Market According to the Type of the Silk, 1796-1856; Appendix C Return on Investment Analysis; Appendix D Comparison of Manufacturing Costs at the EEIC's Experimental Filature and Common Filature in its Vicinity, 1832; Appendix E Mechanisation of Silk Throwing and Weaving in England and Scotland, 1856; Appendix F Types of Silkworm Reared in Bengal Silk Districts, 1818
- Appendix G GlossaryBibliography; Index