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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      24 June 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511599620
      9780521563673
      9780521037471
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511599620
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.675kg, 344 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.516kg, 344 Pages
      • Series:
      Studies in Modern Capitalism
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
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    Series:
    Studies in Modern Capitalism
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
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    Written by well-known scholars, this book raises pertinent questions and takes up alternate 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 in no way inferior to Europeans in terms of their commercial operations and business acumen. The book emphasizes the continuing and growing importance of India's overland trade, even in the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, traces the little-known world of Armenian merchants, the hitherto obscure, but voluminous, Indian trade with the Ottoman Empire, and by unearthing new evidence, demonstrates that the export activity of Asian merchants through the overland route from Bengal was higher, in fact, than the combined total of European exports.

    Reviews

    "This book is designed to change some of the entrenched historiography..." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

    "a welcome addition to the...literature on trade between Europe and Asia in the early modern period." Journal of Economics

    "...it is nonetheless a service to the field to have these contributions by important scholars available for incorporation into the stream of discussion." The International History Review

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