Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.

It documents an important and laudable scholarly effort to up-date, advance and channel historical research on the impact of maritime trade and exchange between Europe and Asia in the early modern period in new and exciting directions . It is a generally successful collective work and should be welcomed and engaged with. Goods from the East does succeed in updating, advancing and channeling our historical research on those topics. (George Bryan Souza, International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 28 (3), August, 2016)

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Maxine Berg is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK, where she has taught since 1978. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy, Founder and Co-Director of the Global History and Culture Centre at Warwick, and was Senior Researcher for the European Research Council. Her recent books include Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the Twenty-first Century (2013) and Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2005).

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Contents 1. General Introduction and Section Introduction: Europe's Trade with Asia; Maxine Berg 2. Understanding Eurasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies; Jan de Vries Section Introduction: Objects of Encounter and Transfers of Knowledge; Maxine Berg 3. Spirited Transactions: The Morals and Materialities of Trade Contacts between the Dutch, the British, and the Malays (1596-1619); Romain Bertrand 4. The Indigo Trade of the English East India Company in the Seventeenth Century: Challenges and Opportunities; Ghulam Nadri 5. The Orient and the dawn of Western industrialization: Armenian calico printers from Constantinople in Marseilles (1669-1686); Olivier Raveux 6. Europe - China - Europe: The Transmission of the Craft of Painted Enamel in the 17th and 18th Centuries; Xiaodong Xu 7. Patterns of Design in Qing-China and Britain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century; Dagmar Schäfer 8. Indian Weavers and East India Company Markets: Surat and Dhaka in the 1790s; Maxine Berg Section Introduction: Private Trade and Networks; Chris Nierstrasz 9. The Eurasian Diamond Trade in the Eighteenth Century: a Balanced Model of Complementary Markets; Tijl Vanneste 10. British Private Trade Networks and Metropolitan Connections in the Eighteenth Century; Timothy Davies 11. Worlds Apart? Merchants, Mariners, and the Organization of the Private Trade in Chinese Export Wares in Eighteenth-Century Europe; Meike Fellinger 12. The Dutch and the English East India Company's Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative View; Om Prakash Section Introduction: Consuming East and West; Felicia Gottmann 13. Becoming Consumers: Asiatic Goods in Migrant and Native-born Middling Households in 18th Century Amsterdam; Anne McCants 14.'Exotic' Goods? Far-Eastern Commodities for the French Market in India in the Eighteenth Century; Kevin Le Doudic 15. Selling India and China in the Eighteenth-Century Paris; Natacha Coquery 16. Textile Furies - the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cottons 1686-1759; Felicia Gottmann Section Introduction: A Taste for Tea; Hanna Hodacs 17. The Popularisation of Tea: East India Companies, Private Traders, Smugglers and the Consumption of Tea in Western Europe, 1700-1760; Chris Nierstraz 18. Chests, Tubs, and Lots of Tea - the European Market for Chinese Tea and the Swedish East India Company, c. 1730-1760; Hanna Hodacs and Leos Müller 19. A North Europe World of Tea: Scotland & the Tea Trade, ca. 1690- ca.1790; Andrew Mackillop 20. Arriving to a Set Table: The Integration of Hot Drinks in the Urban Consumer Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Low Countries; Bruno Blondé and Wouter Ryckbosch 21. For the Home and the Body: Dutch and Indian Ways of Early Modern Consumption; Jos Gommans