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the east india trade
This page is a thematic history page covering the period from 1500 to 1800, during which the hitherto limited mercantile connection between the Asian and European civilisations grew and expanded, and the beginning of a world economy was forged. I have more or less arbitrarily limited the period to the interval from the advent of the Portuguese explorers to the the emergence of the British Raj in India. My own chief interest in the period is the Danish East India Company of the early and middle 17th century, and the Danish colony of Tranquebar on the Coromandel coast of India.
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Book recommendations: A New History of India by Stanley Wolpert Mapping an Empire : The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 by Matthew H. Edney and Andrew T. Edney Empire of Free Trade : The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace (Critical Histories) by Sudipta Sen ...in association with Amazon.com |
Updated: September 2, 1998.
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