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Book The Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies 1614 15

Download or read book The Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies 1614 15 written by Sir William Foster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1939.

Book The voyage of Nicholas Downton to the east Indies 1614 15

Download or read book The voyage of Nicholas Downton to the east Indies 1614 15 written by Nicholas Downton and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voyage of Nicholas Downton  1614 15

Download or read book The Voyage of Nicholas Downton 1614 15 written by William Foster and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies 1614 15

Download or read book Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies 1614 15 written by Sir William Foster and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1939.

Book The Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies   1614 1615

Download or read book The Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies 1614 1615 written by Nicholas Downton and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Loss of the  Trades Increase

Download or read book The Loss of the Trades Increase written by Richmond Barbour and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was it the Titanic of its age? Christened by an optimistic King James I in December 1609, the Trades Increase was the greatest English merchant vessel of the Jacobean era—a magnificent ship embodying the hopes of the nascent East India Company to claim a commanding share of the Eastern trade. But the ship's launch failed when it proved too large to exit from its dock, an ill-fated start to an expedition that would end some three years later, when a dangerously leaking Trades Increase at last reached the shores of Java. While its smaller companion vessel would sail home with handsome profits for investors, the rotting hull of the great ship itself was beyond repair. The Trades Increase and nearly all who sailed it perished wretchedly on the far side of the world. The terrible pattern proven by this voyage, with profits to an elite few in London stained by catastrophic losses in equipment and personnel abroad, ignited rancorous controversy in England over the human, moral, and economic costs of such commerce. In The Loss of the "Trades Increase" Richmond Barbour has written an engrossing account of the tragic expedition and of global capitalism at its hour of emergence. Its sources fragmented among journals, minutes, and letters in the archives of the East India Company, the full story of the Trades Increase is told here for the first time. Earlier writers minimized the loss as a temporary setback and necessary sacrifice on the road to empire. In a work informed by corporate history and postcolonial theory, Barbour sees the saga of the voyage, and all that produced and justified it, differently: as an expression of the structural conflicts, operational risks, and material incapacities that haunted and ultimately unraveled the British Empire—and that destabilize multinational corporations, global markets, and our common biosphere to this day.

Book The Third Voyage Journals

Download or read book The Third Voyage Journals written by R. Barbour and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-10), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a global player.

Book Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth

Download or read book Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth written by R.C. Bridges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special volume of essays to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Society, with a full listing and index of Hakluyt Society publications 1847-1995. Containing: P.E.H. Hair, ’The Hakluyt Society: from Past to Future’; R.C. Bridges, ’William Desborough Cooley and the Foundation of the Hakluyt Society’; Tony Campbell, ’R.H. Major and the British Museum’; R.J. Bingle, ’Henry Yule: India and Cathay’; Ann Savours, ’Clements Markham: longest serving Officer, most prolific Editor’; C.F. Beckingham, ’William Foster and the Records of the India Office’; D.B. Quinn, ’R.A. Skelton of the Map Room’; Michael Strachan, ’Esmond S. de Beer: Scholar and Benefactor’; and R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair, ’The Hakluyt Society and World History’.

Book How India Clothed the World

Download or read book How India Clothed the World written by Giorgio Riello and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generated the first globalization . A series of experts connect this global commodity with the dramatic political and economic transformations that characterised the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Collectively, the essays transform our understanding of the contribution of South Asian cloth to the making of the modern world economy.

Book Earth s Magnetism in the Age of Sail

Download or read book Earth s Magnetism in the Age of Sail written by A. R. T. Jonkers and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonkers explores these early efforts both for what they reveal about the history of science and navigation and as a unique record of the actual changes in the Earth's magnetic field. The result, a combination of science and history, will appeal to a broad audience of specialists as well as general readers."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Cotton

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  • Author : Giorgio Riello
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2015-04-16
  • ISBN : 1107328225
  • Pages : 660 pages

Download or read book Cotton written by Giorgio Riello and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as far afield as Japan, West Africa and Europe. Cotton explores this earlier globalised economy and its transformation after 1750 as cotton led the way in the industrialisation of Europe. By the early nineteenth century, India, China and the Ottoman Empire switched from world producers to buyers of European cotton textiles, a position that they retained for over two hundred years. This is a fascinating and insightful story which ranges from Asian and European technologies and African slavery to cotton plantations in the Americas and consumer desires across the globe.

Book Jesuit and English Experiences at the Mughal Court  c  1580   1615

Download or read book Jesuit and English Experiences at the Mughal Court c 1580 1615 written by João Vicente Melo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India Company (EIC) at the Mughal court between 1580 and 1615. This 35-year period includes the launch of the first Jesuit mission to Akbar’s court in 1580 and the preparation of the royal embassy led by Sir Thomas Roe to negotiate the concession of trading privileges to the EIC, and encompasses not only the extension of the conflict between the Iberian crowns and England into Asia, but also the consolidation of the Mughal Empire. The book examines the proselytizing and diplomatic activities of the Jesuit missionaries, the evolution of English diplomatic strategies concerning the Mughal Empire, and how the Mughal authorities instigated and exploited Anglo-Iberian rivalry in the pursuit of specific commercial, geopolitical, and ideological agendas.

Book The Hakluyt Handbook

Download or read book The Hakluyt Handbook written by David B. Quinn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference guide to the works of the Reverend Richard Hakluyt and a critical evaluation of his achievements.

Book Ethnography and Encounter

Download or read book Ethnography and Encounter written by Guido van Meersbergen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global operations of the East India Companies were profoundly shaped by European perceptions of foreign lands. Providing a cultural perspective absent from existing economic and institutional histories, Ethnography and Encounter is the first book to systematically explore how Company agents’ understandings of and attitudes towards Asian peoples and societies informed institutional approaches to trade, diplomacy, and colonial governance. Its fine-grained comparisons of Dutch and English activities in seventeenth-century South Asia show how corporate ethnography was produced, how it underpinned given modes of conduct, and how it illuminates connections across space and time. Ethnography and Encounter identifies deep commonalities between Dutch and English discourses and practices, their indebtedness to pan-European ethnographic traditions, and their centrality to wider histories of European expansion.