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Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia, C.1585 - 1800: Merchants, Commodities and Commerce
This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime Asia in the early modern period from c. 1585-1800. They are based on exhaustive research and careful analysis of diverse sets of archival materials found around the globe. Written by a leading authority on global maritime economic history and the history of European Expansion, each individual essay addresses a topic of fundamental importance to those interested in knowing more about what merchants did (with which resources and under what conditions) and how they did it, what were the commodities that were incorporated into local, regional, intra-regional and global economies, and what was the role and function of early modern maritime trade and commerce in economic development in general and especially in Asia in the early modern era, from c. 1585-1800. A number of them, in particular, relate the individual or collective merchant experience to specific European (Portuguese and Dutch) imperial projects and their contestation amongst themselves and their indigenous neighbours over portions of the period. Collectively, they form an exposition of a utilitarian view of human activity under a wide-ranging different set of circumstances and conditions but with similar patterns of behaviors and responses that are largely independent from ethnic, racial or religious stereotyping. The work therefore should raise new issues and avenues of research concerning these agents and objects in European Expansion, Asian and Global History.
Book Details
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: Mar 20th, 2014
- Pages: 346
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
- EAN: 9781472417008
- Categories: • International - General• Modern - 17th Century• Modern - 19th Century
About the Author
Geoge Bryan Souza is affiliated with the Department of History, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA, and he has been recently a Mercator Guest Professorship at Tubingen University, Germany, a Fulbright in Macao, China, and among others: a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
Praise for this book
'The singularity of his extensive research of both Portuguese and Dutch presence in Asia, his use of archival materials in Portuguese, Dutch, English and Spanish, and his generosity in providing detailed citations make Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese in Maritime Asia c. 1585-1800 an irreplaceable tome in any respectable research library. ... a must for any student and scholar of the Early Modern Indian Ocean World.' Itinerario '[A] fine volume, which, as with others in the series, has the great merit of making scattered publications by an eminent author available in a single volume.' International Journal of Maritime History 'Souza's new book will be useful to historians of China, European empires, and economic history.' Journal of Economic History 'Souza establishes connections with a wider arena to include the trans-Pacific commercial route to America, and the connections with India and Europe, which shaped the first globalization. It is an economic history of commerce, referring to key commodities and heralding a new global world characterized by a quicker circulation of goods, capital, and men with an ever present social dimension. Souza vividly portrays this multifarious world with empirical abundance provided by countless hours spent in archives and libraries around the world, but always structured in sound ideas so that the reader is offered a solid text to study and to reflect upon.' Journal of Northeast Asian History '[This book] gathers information from dispersed secondary sources and makes use of archival records to shed light on business practices in the context of early modern Eastern markets.' Enterprise and Society