Author: East India CompanyPublisher: London : H. Stevens
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies
Author: East India CompanyPublisher: London : H. Stevens
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
DAWN OF BRITISH TRADE TO THE E
Author: Henry 1819-1886 StevensPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781361713679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
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The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies as Recorded in the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1599-1603
Author: East India CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Dawn Of British Trade To The
Author: Henry StevensPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Dawn of the British Trade to the East Indies
Author: The Dawn of British Trade to the East Indies
Author: The Dawn of British Trade
Author: Henry StevensPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331893745
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Excerpt from The Dawn of British Trade: To the East Indies, as Recorded in the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1599-1603, Containing an Account of the Formation of the Company, the First Adventure and Waymouth's Voyage in Search of the North-West Passage The original manuscript from which this volume is printed, is preserved in the India Office, London, where it is known as the first volume of the Court Minutes of the East India Company; and consists of 120 leaves foolscap folio, written in the old court hand of the Elizabethan period. Some few years ago it was sent, with other documents, to the Public Record Office to be calendared, and there fell under the notice of my late father, Mr. Henry Stevens of Vermont, who, ever watchful for new materials for history, especially American, immediately recognised its importance. Finding that only a very small portion had ever been quoted, he determined with the sanction of the Authorities of the India Office, to print it in full, and forthwith employed an expert to transcribe it exactly with all its peculiarities of spelling and contraction. This proved a work of time and of considerable difficulty, as the handwriting is extremely illegible in places, and in some cases several opinions were required to decipher certain passages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company
Author: K. N. ChaudhuriPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521031592
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"First published 1978"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Loss of the "Trades Increase"
Author: Richmond BarbourPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Going the Distance
Author: Ron HarrisPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069115077X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
"Long-distance oceanic and overland trade along the Eurasian landmass in the 1400s was largely dominated by Chinese, Indian, and Arabic traders and predominantly conducted over short trajectories by sole traders or organized around small-scale enterprises. Yet, within two centuries of Europeans' arrival in the Indian Ocean in 1498, long-distance trade throughout Eurasia was mainly taken over by them. By 1700, they had formed new, large-scale, and impersonal organizations, primarily a joint-stock business corporation between English East India Company (EIC) and Dutch East India Company (VOC). This allowed them to transform trade from an enterprise dominated by many small traders moving goods over short segments to a vertically integrated firm that was able to control goods from their origin to the end consumers. This rise of the business corporation proved essential for the economic rise of Europe. Why did the corporation arise indigenously only in Europe, and given its effective organization of long-distance trade, why wasn't it mimicked by other Eurasian civilizations for 300 years? Harris closely examines the role played by forms of organization in the transformation of Eurasian trade between 1400 and 1700, comparing the organizational forms that were used in four major civilizations: Chinese, Indian, Middle Eastern, and Western European. Through this comparative perspective, he argues that the organizational design of the EIC and VOC, the first long-lasting joint-stock corporations, enabled large-scale multilateral impersonal cooperation for the first time in human history. He also argues that this new organizational form enabled the English and Dutch to deploy more capital, more ships, more voyages, and more agents than other organizational forms"--