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Private Enterprise and the China Trade
Meike von Brescius
2022
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This book examines the European commercial landscape of the early China trade, c.1700–1750. It looks at the foundational period of Sino-European commerce and explores a world of private enterprise beneath the surface of the official East India Company structures. Using rich private trade records, it analyses the making of pan-European markets, distribution networks and patterns of investment that together reveal a new geography of a trading system previously studied mostly at Canton. By considering the interloping activities of British-born merchants working for the smaller East India Companies, the book uncovers the commercial practices and cross-Company collaborations, both legal and illicit, that sustained the growth of the China trade: smuggling, wholesale trading, private commissions and the manipulation of Company auctions.
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Keywords
- Auctions
- Cadiz
- canton
- Chinese export wares
- East India Companies
- global history
- History
- History: earliest times to present day
- Humanities
- interlopers
- maritime logistics
- Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
- money markets
- Scots
- Smuggling
- Speculation
- supercargoes
- Tea trade
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
- transnational trade
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DOI: 10.1163/9789004504745Editions