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oapen-20.500.12657-865692024-01-11T13:04:41Z Private Enterprise and the China Trade von Brescius, Meike auctions Cadiz Canton Chinese export wares East India Companies global history interlopers maritime logistics money markets Scots smuggling speculation supercargoes tea trade transnational trade bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLL Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 This book examines the European commercial landscape of the early China trade, c.1700–1750. It looks at the foundational period of Sino-European commerce and explores a world of private enterprise beneath the surface of the official East India Company structures. Using rich private trade records, it analyses the making of pan-European markets, distribution networks and patterns of investment that together reveal a new geography of a trading system previously studied mostly at Canton. By considering the interloping activities of British-born merchants working for the smaller East India Companies, the book uncovers the commercial practices and cross-Company collaborations, both legal and illicit, that sustained the growth of the China trade: smuggling, wholesale trading, private commissions and the manipulation of Company auctions. 2024-01-11T11:33:20Z 2024-01-11T11:33:20Z 2022 book ONIX_20240111_9789004504745_6 9789004504745 9789004369146 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86569 eng application/pdf n/a 9789004504745.pdf https://brill.com/display/title/38219 Brill 10.1163/9789004504745 10.1163/9789004504745 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9789004504745 9789004369146 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [...] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation open access
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This book examines the European commercial landscape of the early China trade, c.1700–1750. It looks at the foundational period of Sino-European commerce and explores a world of private enterprise beneath the surface of the official East India Company structures. Using rich private trade records, it analyses the making of pan-European markets, distribution networks and patterns of investment that together reveal a new geography of a trading system previously studied mostly at Canton. By considering the interloping activities of British-born merchants working for the smaller East India Companies, the book uncovers the commercial practices and cross-Company collaborations, both legal and illicit, that sustained the growth of the China trade: smuggling, wholesale trading, private commissions and the manipulation of Company auctions.
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