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Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the
first time, documents the late Holden Furber's discovery that
private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the 'country trade'
between Asian ports, played a major role in the European expansion
in India before the age of empire. Furber vividly describes how
individual entrepreneurs used their positions with East India
Companies to build personal fortunes, and how these private
endeavours, for which the English East India Company gave more
latitude, ultimately worked to the benefit of British power in
India. One of the continuing strengths of his work remains its use
of archival sources, not only British, but also other archival
records, in particular those of The Netherlands and Scandinavia.
The essays also highlight important connections, between chartered
and 'clandestine' trade, and piracy; of multinational private
investments in the increasingly dominant East India Company; and
between the trade of the Indian Ocean and Pacific worlds.
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