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British Traders in the East Indies, 1770-1820 - 'At Home in the Eastern Seas' (Hardcover)
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British Traders in the East Indies, 1770-1820 - 'At Home in the Eastern Seas' (Hardcover)
Series: Worlds of the East India Company
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An in-depth study of the British traders who extended British
commercial activity beyond the area controlled by the East India
Company. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the British
private traders who engaged in the intra-Asian trade, known to
contemporaries as the "country trade", between 1770 and 1820,
providing much detail on who the traders were, howthey conducted
their operations, and how they interacted with indigenous societies
in a complex and very volatile region. It examines their relations
with East India Company, and their moves beyond the Company's orbit
to open upindependently new spheres of British commercial,
political, and imperial influence. It discusses their social and
political interaction with Malays, their good understanding of
local societies, their use of the Malay language, their adoption of
local practices and procedures, and their gathering of many forms
of useful knowledge, all of which underpinned the growth in
commercial activity and made the traders indispensable to East
India Company officials. It explores their often fractious rivalry
with the Dutch, and analyses the decline of the country trade
following the establishment of Singapore in 1819. Throughout, the
book provides many case studies of individual traders. W.G. Miller
was Southeast Asian Studies Librarian at the Australian National
University from 1974 to 1997 and a Visiting Fellow at the College
of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University from
2004 to 2018.
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