Merchants, Companies and Trade. Europe and Asia in the early modern era
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- Author(s) Chaudhury, Sushil, & Michel Morineau (eds)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1999
- Pages 330pp
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Collected papers which shed 'new light, raise pertinent questions and take up fresh perspectives on the growth and development of international trade between Europe and Asia, especially India, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through a comparative and comprehensive study of merchant communities, markets and commodities, the individual authors argue, contrary to conventional views, that Asian merchants were no way inferior to Europeans in terms of their commercial operation and business acumen. It also attempts to show that the period was characterised more by competition than by collaboration ...'