This lavishly illustrated volume of essays introduces a fascinating
array of subjects, each exploring an aspect of the far-reaching
"mercantile effect" and its impact across western Asia in the early
modern era. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the
increased movement of merchants and goods from China to Europe
brought desirable commodities to new markets, but also spread
ideas, tastes, and technologies across western Asia as never
before. Through the newly-established Dutch, English, and French
East India companies, as well as much older mercantile networks,
commodities including silk, ivory, books, and glazed porcelains
were transported both east and west. The Mercantile Effect shows a
fascinating array of trade objects and the customs and traditions
of traders that brought about a period of intense cultural
interchange.
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