Treasure Fleets of the Eastern Oceans:



Department of HistorySpecial SubjectTreasure Fleets of the Eastern Oceans:China, India and the West 1601-1833HI31FModule Booklet 2020Seminar Times:Wednesdays 10-12 H.03 and Thursdays 11-1 H.043Module Director: Professor Maxine Bergmaxine.berg@warwick.ac.ukRoom H020Tel. 02476 52337723377 (internal)Office Hours: Wednesdays 9:15-10; Thursdays 1-3; or by appointmentTreasure Fleets of the Eastern Oceans: China, India and the West 1601-1833Aims and Objectives:The module will allow students to investigate how European encounters with Asia worked at the level of exchanges of material culture. As a Special Subject this will develop students’ skills in identifying and deploying primary sources to frame and substantiate their historical analyses. This module develops the use of Warwick’s electronic sources – ECCO and the Goldsmith-Kress Collection on-line as well as other electronic repositories. It introduces students to museum collections and art collections, as well as colonial and shipping records, correspondence and travellers’ accounts.Context:There are no prerequisites for this Special Subject. It opens opportunities for in depth reading, understanding, research and writing on global and colonial history, especially exploring Europe’s encounter with Asia. It builds on other single themes discussed in Year 1-2 Options ‘The Dragon’s Ascent: the Rise of Modern China’, and Year 2 Option ‘Galleons and Caravans’. It complements Advanced Option ‘China and the Wider World’. The Special Subject connects senior undergraduates to a major new research area in the department centred on Asian and global history. Undergraduates will engage with a new secondary literature on global history, in new initiatives inmuseum displays and documents collections focussed on East-West connections.Times & Places:The course tutor is Professor Maxine Berg. Office Room H020. Office Hours are Wednesdays 9:15-10:00; Thursdays: 1:00-3:00, but other times can be arranged by e-mail, or just drop by. Students are also encouraged to attend the seminars and workshops of the Global History and Culture Centre. These take place approximately three Wednesdays per term; 1:00-2:00 and 4:00-5:30. A programme will be distributed, and will be available on the website. Also please make use of the website: www2.warwick.ac.uk/go/globalhistorySyllabus:The module explores European discovery and trade in Asian exotic and luxury commodities. Those commodities: spices, textiles, porcelain and tea, brought from South-east Asia, China and India transformed the domestic lives of Europe’s elites and ordinary people. The module emphasises the encounters and connections of Asia’s and Europe’s material cultures. It investigates how curious exotics collected on voyages of discovery became European desirables and even necessities. It looks at how the goods were traded first by Asian merchants, then by Europe’s East India Companies. It looks at how these precious goods for world trade were made, and then transported in long-distance sea voyages. It shows how the trade was organized across far-flung trading posts via ships risking storms, privateering and war. Such goods from afar became the gifts of diplomatic missions. They inspired scientific expeditions and experiments, and they entered into the European art world. The treasure fleets of discovery and encounter turned to the ships and navies of empire. The module connects older historiographies of colonialism and imperialism to new questions arising from global history. It looks to art history, the histories of collecting and display and anthropology to understand the meanings of the goods and the desires for exotic cargoes.Teaching and Learning:The module will be taught through a combination of thematic seminar discussions, a museum visit and individual tutorial sessions on essays. Most students will complete one 1500 word essay and two 3,000 word essays. A 9,000 word Dissertation based on original research involving primary sources may also be associated with the module The module does not include lectures.Expected Learning Outcomes: (By the end of the module the student should be able to....)Which teaching and learning methods enable students to achieve this learning outcome?Which assessment methods will measure the achievement of this learning outcome?Demonstrate a systematic knowledge and understanding of the history of long distance trade, the East India Companies and exchange of material cultures in the period between 1601 and 1833Seminar discussions, individual Oral participation (10%); short essay 1500 words (10%) source essay 3,000 words (40%) final essay 3,000 words (40%)Critically analyse and evaluate a broad range of primary sources relating to the history of long distance trade, the East India Companies and exchange of material cultures in the period between 1601 and 1833Effectively communicate ideas, and make informed, coherent and persuasive arguments, about the history of long distance trade, the East India Companies and exchange of material cultures in the period between 1601 and 1833Critically review and consolidate theoretical, methodological, and historiographical ideas relating to the history of long distance trade, the East India Companies and exchange of material cultures in the period between 1601 and 1833.Course Work:Regular attendance at seminars and active participation is expected. Students are also expected to attend the special sessions set up for the course including the Library Internet Sources session. All will be expected to submit three pieces of non-assessed work. For those who do a long essay there will be two short essays and a long-essay proposal with outline and bibliography. Fully examined students will submit three short essays.Core & Additional Reading:Uploads of and links to many of the core primary readings will be available on the module web pages: (). The web pages will also contain some secondary readings not easily available in the library. Other secondary reading will be available in the library. There are also suggestions for further reading which may be used in short and long essays. Students should also make wide use of online sources which will be listed in the course booklet and further discussed at the online sources session.Teaching:Lectures per weekNoneSeminars per week2 2-hour seminars per week for 9 weeksTutorials per weekLinked to essay productionLaboratory sessionsNoneTotal contact hours36Module duration (weeks, if applicable)10(including 1 reading weeks)Other (please describe):e.g. distance-learning, intensive weekend teachingAssessment Methods:Maximum word length for long essays (3,000) words and dissertations (9,000) does not include footnotes and bibliography. There is no 10% allowance for going over this length. .Students are assessed by a combination of oral participation, a short essay (1500 words), a source essay (3,000 words) and a chronological essay (3,000 words). Visiting students: see Deadlines:1500 word essay – Wednesday, week 33,000 word essay – Wednesday, week 73,000 word source-based essay –Term 3, Wednesday, week 1Seminar Topics:Spring TermWeek 1.Global History: New Perspectives.Seaborne Empires of the Indian Ocean: Ports and Emporia.Week 2.Fleets from the Western Oceans: the Portuguese and the Dutch East India Company (VOC).Essay WorkshopDay Trip: London The V&A Early Modern Europe Gallery - Friday, 17th January, 2020..Week 3.Straits of Malacca and the Malabar Coast: the Spice Trade.Japanese Encounters: the Closure of Japan and Dutch Traders.Week 4.The English East India Company..The French East India Company.Week 5.The Textile Century: Indian Cottons and European consumers.Oriental Luxuries: the Chinaware Revolution.Week 6.Reading WeekWeek 7.The Tea Trade: Taxes and SmugglersPrinces and Traders: the Macartney Embassy to China.Week 8.Science and Empire: Botany and Plantations.Week 8. Final Essay Writing WorkshopWeek 9.Ships and Sailors, Pirates and Captives.Cartography, Sea Charts and Cook’s Third VoyageFinal Essay PresentationsWeek10.Final Essay Presentations Summer Term Indicative ReadingsPrimary Sources:Francois Bernier,Travels in the Mughal Empire. 1656-1668 (ed. &translated by Archibald Constable, 1891).Biswas, Kalipada, 1950 ,The Original Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks Relating to the Foundation of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta (Calcutta: royal Asiatic Society of Bengal).Stephen H. Gregg, ed., Empire and Identity.An Eighteenth-Century Sourcebook (Paper, Palgrave, 2005).J.L. Cranmer-Byng, An Embassy to China. being the Journal kept by Lord Macartney during his Embassy to the Emperor Ch’ien-lung 1793-1794 (London, 1962).Sir George Staunton, An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China (Dublin 1793).Warren R. Dawson, The Banks Letters. A Calendar of the Manuscript Correspondence (London.British Museum, 1958).H.B. Morse, The Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China 1635-1834 , 5 vols.(Oxford, 1926), The Letters of Pere d’Entrecolles’. translated by Robert Tichane in Robert Tichane, Ching-te-chen. Views of a Porcelain City (Painted Post, NY), 1983William Alexander and George Henry Mason, Costume of China (London, 1800).The Diaries of AnandaRangaPillai (12 vols). 1730-80.Frances Buchanan. A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar, 3 vols. London 1807.Electronic Resources: The Making of the Modern World:The Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic LiteratureEighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)Empire Online[Log-in to these resources via the Warwick Library Catalogue]Secondary Sources:David Arnold, ‘Agriculture and ‘Improvement’ in Early Colonial India: a pre-history of development’, Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 5, no. 4, Oct. 2005, p. 505-525.C.A. Bayly, Rulers, townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770-1870 (Cambridge, 1983)C.A. Bayly, Imperial Meridian. The British Empire and the World 1780-1830 (1989).Maxine Berg, ‘In Pursuit of Luxury: Global Origins of British Consumers’, Past and Present, 182, Feb. 2004, pp. 85-142.Maxine Berg ‘Britain, Industry and Perceptions of China: Matthew Boulton, ‘[Useful Knowledge’ and the MacartneyEmbasssy to China 1792-4’, Journal of Global History (2006).Huw Bowen, The Business of empire.The East India Company and imperial Britain 1765-1833 (Cambridge, 2006).Kenneth Chase, Firearms: A Global History to 1700 (Cambridge, 2003).K.N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean.K.N. Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760 (Cambridge, 1978).K.N. Chaudhuri, Asia before Europe. Economy and Society of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, 1990).S. Chaudhury and M. Morineau, Merchants, Companies and Trade (1999).Carlo Cipolla, Guns, Sails and Empires.Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400-1700 (1992).Linda Colley, Captives (London, 2002).Philip D. Curtin, Cross Cultural Trade in World History (Cambridge, 1984).A.R. Disney, Twilight of the Pepper Empire (Cambridge, 1978).Natacha Eaton, ‘Between mimesis and alterity: art, gift and diplomacy in colonial India, 1770-1800’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 47, 2004, pp. 816-844.Robert Finlay, ‘The Pilgrim Art: the Culture of Porcelain in World History’, Journal of World History, 9 (1993), pp. 141-188.Natasha Glaisyer, ‘Networking: Trade and Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire’, Historical Journal, 14 (2004), pp. 451-476.Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800 (Minneapolis: 1976).Conrad Gill, Merchants and Mariners of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1961).G. Godden, Oriental Export Market Porcelain.Stuart Gordon, When Asia was the World (Yale, 2007).Wang Gungwu, ‘Merchants without empire: the Hokkien sojourning communities’ in James L. Hevia, Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 (Durham, NC and London, 1995).John Irwin and K.B. Brett, Origins of Chintz (London, 1970). Contains eighteenth-century accounts of cotton dyeing and printing in India byRhyiner, Father Coeurdoux and William RoxburghMaya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East (London, 2005). Rose Kerr and Nigel Wood, Ceramic Technology.Vol5 Science and Civilization inChina, vol. 5 part 12.LotharLedderose, Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art (Princeton, 2000).David Mackay, In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science and Empire, 1780-1801 (London, 1985).Peter Marshall, The Making and Unmaking of Empire (OUP, 2005).P.J. Marshall, The Eighteenth Century in Indian History. Revolution or Evolution?(OUP 2005).Hoh-Cheung & Lorna H. Mui, ‘Smuggling and the British Tea Trade before 1784’, American Historical Review 74, 1968.Hoh-Cheung & Lorna H. Mui, Shops and Shopkeeping in in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 1989).Hoh-cheungMui and Lorna H. Mui, The management of monopoly. A study of the East India Company’s conduct of its tea trade, 1784-1833 (Vancouver, 1984).Chandra Mukerji, From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism (1983).P. Parthasarathi, ‘Rethinking wages and competitiveness in the eighteenth century’, Past and Present, 158 (198), pp. 79-109.P. Parthaasarathi, The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800 (Cambridge, 2001).M.N. Pearson,Spices in the Indian Ocean World.M.N. Pearson, The World of the Indian Ocean 1500-1800 (Ashgate 2005).Anne Pérotin-Dumon, ‘The pirate and the emperor: power and the law on the seas, 1450-1850’ in James D. Tracy, The Political Economy of Merchant Empires (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 196-227.Om Prakash, ‘Spices and the Spice trade’, Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Vol 5.Geoff Quilley, ‘Signs of Commerce: The East India Company and the Patronage of Eighteenth-Century British Art’, in H.V. Bowen et. al, The Worlds of the East India Company.Antony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, c. 1450-1680, w vols. (New Haven, Yale U. Press), 1988-93).Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Explorations in Connected History (OUP India 2005)Tirthankar Roy, ‘Knowledge and Divergence from the Perspective of Early Modern India’, Journal of Global History, 3, 2008, pp. 361-387. James D. Tracy, The Rise of Merchant Empires (Cambridge, 1990).George D. Winius& Marcus P.M. Vink, The Merchant Warrior Pacified. The VOC and its Changing Political Economy in India (Oxford paper, 1994).eminarsWeek 1. Global History: New PerspectivesSeminar Questions:What is new about Global History?What makes global trade possible?What made Europeans curious about the rest of the world?Secondary Reading:C.A.Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons(Oxford, 2004), chapters 1 and 2.Catherine Hall, Review of C.A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, Institute of Historical Research Book Review (2004), available here: . *Maxine Berg ed., Writing the History of the Global: Challeges for the Twenty-first Century (Oxford, 2013) *AHR Conversation: How Size Matters: The Qeustion of Scale in History’, The American Historical Review, 118.5 (December, 2013), pp. 1431-1472.Natalie Zemon Davis, ‘Decentering History: Local Stories and Cultural Crossings in a Global World’, History and Theory 50 (2011), pp. 188-202.Francesca Trivellato, ‘Is there a Future for Italian Microhistory in the Age of Global History?’, Californai Italian Studies 2.1 (2-11). Online at Jerven, ‘An Uneven Playing Field: Comparisons in Global Economic History’, Journal of Global History 7 (2012), pp. 107-128.*Further Reading:GurminderBhambra, ‘AHR Roundtable: Historical Sociology, Modernity, and Postcolonial Critique’, The American Historical Review, vol. 116 (3), June, 2011, pp. 653-662.*Barbara Watson Andaya, ‘Oceans Unbounded: Transversing Asia across “Area Studies”’, Journal of Asian Studies, 65, 4 (2006), pp. 669-690. *Timothy Brook, Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and Dawn of the Global World (London, 2008).John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire since 1405 (London, 2007) Chapter 2.F. Fernández-Arnesto, ‘Britain, the Sea, the Empire, the World’, in David Cannadine, ed., Empire, the Sea and Global History: Britain’s Maritime World, c. 1760-1840 (Basingstoke, 2007), pp. 6-22.David Christian,Maps of Time: An introduction to Big History (Berkeley, 2004).Jürgen ?sterhammel and Niels P. Peterson,Globalization: A Short History (Princeton, 2005).Jon E Wilson, ‘Early Colonial India Beyond Empire’, Historical Journal, 50/4 (2007), pp.951-970.*‘World Historians and their Critics’, History and Theory Theme issue 34 (1995).*Anne C McCants, ‘Exotic Goods, Popular Consumption and the Standard of Living: Thinking about Globalization in the Early Modern World’, Journal of World History, 18/4 (2007), pp. 433-462.David Washbrook, ‘India in the Early Modern World Economy: Modes of Production, Reproduction and Exchange’, Journal of Global History, 2 (2007), pp. 87-111.*Documents:Tom Laichas, ‘A Conversation with Kenneth Pomeranz’, World History Connected, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2007), available here: .*Binu M. John, ‘“I am not going to call myself a Global Historian”: An Interview with C.A. Bayly’, Itinerario, 31/2 (2007), pp. 7-14. *Bede Morre, ‘An interview with Mark Elvin’, Itinerario31/2 (2007), pp. 9-15.*Global History Videos (a series of interviews with global historians) on the Global History and Culture Centre Website:[].*Seaborne empires of the Indian Ocean: Ports and EmporiaSeminar Questions:1.What attracted traders to the Indian Ocean?2.How effective were Indian overseas merchants and traders?Secondary Reading:Om Prakash, ‘The Indian Maritime Merchant, 1500-1800’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 47, 3 (2004), pp. 435-457.*K.N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750(Cambridge, 1985), chapters 1, 2 and 5.K.N. Chaudhuri, Asia before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, 1990), chapter 11, pp. 355-360.Catherine B. Asher and Cynthia Talbot, India before Europe (Cambridge, 2006), chap. 6.Uma Das Gupta (ed.), The World of the Indian Ocean Merchant 1500-1800. Collected Eassya of Ashin Das Gupta (New Delhi, 2004). Introduction by Subrahmanyam, chap. 1- The Maritime Merchant and Indian History and chap. 2 – India and the Indian Ocean 1500-1800. *Further Reading:F. Braudel, Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800, (Trans. by Miriam Kochan London, 1973) Vol. 2, pp. 581-599; Vol. 3, pp. 484-535.Markus P.M. Vink, ‘Indian Ocean Studies and the ‘New Thalassology’, Journal of Global History, 2, 1 (2007), pp. 41-62*David Lambert, Luciana Martins and Miles Ogborn, ‘Currents, visions and voyages: historical geographies of the sea’, Journal of Historical Geography, 32 (2006), pp. 479-493.*John F. Richards, The Mughal Empire (New Cambridge History of India; Cambridge, 1993), chap. 9.M.A.P. Meilink-Roelofsz, Asian Trade and European Influence in the Indonesian Archipelago between 1500 and c. 1630 (The Hague, 1962, reprint 1969), pp. 27-35.*Sanjay Subrahmanyam, The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500-1650 (Cambridge, 1990), chapter 5, ‘Europeans and Asians in an age of contained conflict’, pp. 252-297.*Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘Introduction’ in S. Subrahmanyam (ed.) Maritime India (Oxford, 2004). Stephen Frederic Dale, Indian merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1699-1750 (Cambridge, 1994), chapters 1 and 6.*M.N. Pearson, ‘The Indian Ocean and the Red Sea’ in M.N. Pearson ed., The World of the Indian Ocean 1500-1800 (Ashgate, 2005), chapter X. Also see this volume for other detailed studies.*Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘The Trading World of the Western Indian Ocean, 1546-65: A Political Interpretation’ in Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Mughals and Franks (New Delhi, 2005), pp. 21-41.Catherine B. Asher and Cynthia Talbot, India before Europe (Cambridge, 2006), chaps. 7,8,9.John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 (London, 2007) Chapter 2.Edward Alpers and HimanshuPrabha Ray (eds.), Cross-Currents and Community Networks: The History of the Indian Ocean World (New Delhi; New York, 2007). Introduction.B. Bhattacharya, G. Dharamphal-Frick and J. Gommans, ‘Spatial and Temporal Continuities of Merchant Networks in South Asia and the Indian Ocean (1500-2000)’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 50, 2-3 (2007), pp. 91-105. [This is a special issues also including articles by Om Prakash, GhulamNadri and others]. *Rene Barendse, The Arabian Seas (Leiden, 2002).Sebouh David Aslanian, From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: the Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa(Berkeley, 2011).Documents:Francois Bernier, Travels in the Mughal Empire, 1656-1668 (ed. & translated by Archibald Constable, 1891).*A Novel: Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke is the second in Ghosh’s trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. The trilogy is about the opium trade in the early nineteenth century, but a key character is a Gujarati merchant.Week 2.Fleets from the Western Oceans: the Portuguese and the Dutch East India Company (VOC)Seminar Questions:1.Why were the Portuguese able to establish such a strong position in Indian Ocean trade?2.What advantages did Dutch merchants gain from the organization of the VOC?Secondary Reading:The PortugueseF. Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th – 18th Century: Vol. 3: The Perspective of the World (Berkeley, 1992 Printing), pp. 138-157.Donald F. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe, Vol. I: ‘The Century of Discovery’, (Chicago, 1965).Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘The birth-pangs of Portuguese Asia: revisiting the fateful ‘long decade’ 1498-1509, Journal of Global History, 2, 3 (2007), pp. 261- 280.*Sanjay Subrahmanyam ,The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India 1500-1650 (Cambridge, 1990), chap. 4.Sanjay Subrahmanyam (ed.) Maritime India (Oxford, 2004).K.N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean , chaps. 3,4.Francisco Bethencourt&Diogo Ramada Curto, Portuguese Oceanic Expansion 1400-1800 (CUP 2007), chap. 1 by Stuart B. Schwartz ‘The Economy of the Portuguese Empire’; chap. 3 by M.N. Pearson, ‘Markets and Merchant Communities in the Indian Ocean: Locating the Portuguese’.Further Reading:Carla Rahn Phillips, ‘The Growth and Composition of Trade in the Iberian Empires, 1450-1750’ in James B. Tracy, The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750 (Cambridge, 1990), chap. 2, pp. 34-101.Om Prakash, European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia (Ashgate, 1997), chapters 2 and 3.James C. Boyajian, Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Hapsburgs 1580-1640 (Baltimore; London, 2008 [1993]).Sanjay Subrahmanyam, From the Tagus to the Ganges (Oxford, 2005), chapter 2 – On Indian Views of the Portuguese in Asia, 1500-1700.*Stefan Halikowski Smith, ‘Profits Sprout like Tropical Plants: A Fresh Look at What Went Wrong with the Eurasian Spice Trade c. 1550-1800, Journal of Global History, 3, 3 (2008), pp. 389-418. *The DutchJan de Vries and Ad van der Woude, The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815(Cambridge, 1997), chap. 9.5.6 ‘The Rise of the VOC, pp. 382-411 and 10.3, ‘Trade with Asia’, pp. 429-448.Jan de Vries, ‘The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World’,Economic History Review, 63, 3 (2010), pp. 710-733.*NielsSteensgaard ‘The growth and composition of the long-distance trade of England and the Dutch Republic before 1750’ in James D. Tracy, The Rise of Merchant Empires, (Cambridge, 1990), chap. 3, pp. 102-153.F.S. Gaastra and J.R. Bruijn, ‘The Dutch East India Company’s Shipping, 1602-1795, in a Comparative Perspective’ in F.S. Gaastra and J.R. Buijn (ed.), Ships, Sailors and Spices: East India Companies and Their Shipping in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries(Amsterdam, 1993).Om Prakash, ‘The Portuguese and the Dutch in Asian Maritime Trade: a Comparative Analysis’ chap 8 in SushilChaudhury and Michel Morineau eds., Merchants, Companies and Trade. Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era (Cambridge, 1999), chap. 8, pp. 175-188.*Kerry Ward, Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company (Cambridge, 2008).George D. Winius& Marcus P. M. Vink, The Merchant Warrior Pacified. The VOC and its Changing Political Economy in India (Oxford, 1994).Documents:Fern?o Mendes Pinto, The Travels of Mendes Pinto, ed., and trans. Rebecca Catz (Chicago,1989)* - Intro. Xv-xlvi- Chap. 2 – Passage to India - Chap. 12 – Departure for Malacca- Chap. 94-97 – The founding of Peking to Business and Trade Practices in China- Chap. 132 –134 - The Discovery of Japan to How firearms came to JapanLiam MathhewBrockey, ‘A Selection of Contemporary Sources’, Itinerario 31, 2(2007). *Peter C. Mancall, Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery. An Anthology.(OUP).- Document 12 – Duarto de Sande – An Excellent Treatise of the Kingdom of China (1590), pp. 165-175.- Document 13 – Matteo Ricci - A Discourse of the Kingdom of China, pp. 176-186.- Document 14 – A Discourse of Voyages into the East and West Indies (1598).KeesZandvliet, The Dutch Encounter with Asia 1600-1950(Amsterdam, 2002) - Visual Images.*Peter Jimack, ed., A History of the Two Indies. A Translated Selection of Writings from Raynal’sHistoire Philosophiqueetpolitique des établissements des Européensdans les DeuxIndes (Ashgate, 2006), Introduction and books 1, 2 and 5.*The Straits of Malacca and the Malabar Coast: the Spice TradeSeminar Questions:How were spices traded from the East to the West?What were the effects of European demand for spices on Asian production and producers?Secondary Reading:Om Prakash, ‘Spices and the Spice trade’, in Joel Mokyr (ed.) Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Oxford, 2003), Vol. 5.Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient 1600-1800 (University of Minnesota Press, 1976, chap.1 pp. 31-78.*Anthony Reid, ‘Economic and Social Change’ in Nicholas Tarling(ed.), The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. 1(2) 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 116-160.*Romain Bertrant, ‘Spirit Transactions: The Morals and Materialities of Trade Contacts between the Dutch, the British and the Malays 1596-1619’ in Maxine Berg, ed., Goods from the East.1600-1800 Trading Eurasia (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015), pp. 45-60.Further Reading:K.N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean, chap. 5 ‘Emporia Trade’.M.N. Pearson,Spices in the Indian Ocean World(Aldershot, 1996).A.R. Disney, The Twilight of the Pepper Empire (Cambridge, 1978).John E. Wills, Pepper, Guns and Parleys: the Dutch East India Company and China 1622-1681 (Cambridge, Mass. 1974).Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, c. 1450-1680, 2 vols. Yale, 1988-93), chapters 1, 2 and 3.*M.A.P. Meilink-Roelofsz, Asian Trade and European Influence in the Indonesian Archipelago, chaps.5, 9.John Keay,The Spice Route: a History (University of California, 2007), chaps. 10-13, also see images here.* (images only on website)Conrad Gill, Merchants and Mariners of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1961), chap. 2. *Leonard Blussé, ‘No Boats to China. The Dutch East India Company and the Changing Pattern of the China Sea Trade, 1625-1690’, Modern Asian Studies 30, 1 (February, 1996), pp. 51-76. *Documents:A. Reid (ed.), Johan Nieuhof: Voyages and Travels to the East Indies 1653-1670 (Singapore, 1988). *Week 3 Japanese Encounters: the Closure of Japan and Dutch TradersSeminar Questions:How ‘closed’ was Tokugawa Japan?What did the Japanese have to offer other trading nations?Secondary Reading:John Whitney Hall (ed.)The Cambridge History of JapanVol 4: Early Modern Japan (Cambridge, 1991).Japan Trade, 1550-1700’ in Prakash, ed. European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia (Aldershot, 1997), chap. 6, pp. 117-128.Conrad Totman, Early Modern Japan (Berkeley, 1993).David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet (London, 2011) – novel about the Dutch factory in Deshima.Martha Chaiklin, Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture: the Influence of European Culture on Japan 1700-1850, (Leiden, 2003).Further Reading:Kenneth Chase, Firearms: A Global History to 1700 (Cambridge, 2003).Luke S. Roberts, Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in Eighteenth Century Tosa(Cambridge, 1998) Chap 1.Susan B. Hanley and Kozo Yamamura, Economic and Demographic Change in Preindustrial Japan 1600-1868 (Princeton, 1977).Susan B. Hanley, Everyday Things in Premodern Japan; the Hidden Legacy of Material Culture (Berkeley, 1997), chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-50.Michael Cooper (ed.),They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640 (Ann Arbor, 1965).Marcia Yonemoto, Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868 (Berkeley, 2003).Documents:EngelbertKaempfer, Kaempfer’s Japan: Topkugawa Culture Observed ed. & translated by Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey (University of Hawaii Press, 1999), Book 4, pp. 137-229.*Trip to the V&A Early Modern European History Gallery – Friday 31st January, 2020Week 4. English East India CompanySeminar Questions:Why was the English East India Company able to make the transition from trade to government in the eighteenth century?What advantages did the English East India Company have as a latecomer in early modern global trade?Secondary Reading:Jan De Vries, ‘The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World’,Economic History Review, 63, 3 (2010), pp. 710-733. *Jan de Vries, ‘Understanding Eureasian Trade in the Era of the Trading Companies’, in Berg, Goods from the East, pp 7-39.K.N. Chaudhuri, TheEnglish East India Company: The Study of an Early Joint-Stock Company 1600-1640 (London, 1965).Peter J. Marshall, ‘The English in Asia to 1700’ in Nicholas Canny (ed.),The Oxford History of the British Empire:The Origins of Empire (Oxford, 1998), chap. 12, pp. 264-285.Peter J. Marshall, ‘The British in Asia: Trade to Dominion, 1700-1765’, in P.J. Marshall, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century, (Oxford, 1998), chap. 22, pp. 487-50.Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800(Minneapolis; London, 1976), chap. 2.Nick Robins, The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (London, 2006).Anthony Farrington, Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834 (London: British Library, 2002). Huw Bowen, ‘Britain in the Indian Ocean Region and beyond’ in H.V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke and John G. Reid, eds. Britain’s Oceanic Empire (Cambridge, 2012), pp. 45-66.Philip J. Stern, ‘History and Historiography of the East India Company. Past, Present and Future’, History Compass 2010 *Further Reading:K.N. Chaudhuri, The English East India Company’s Shipping (c. 1669-1760) in J.R. Bruijn and F.S. Gaastra (eds.), Ships, Sailors and Spices: East India Companies and their Shipping in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries, pp. 49-80.K.N. Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760 (Cambridge, 1978).Peter J. Marshall, The Making and Unmaking of Empire: Britain, India and America, c.1750-1783 (Oxford; New York, 2005). J. Talboys Wheeler, Early Records of British India: A History of the English Settlements in India (New Delhi, 1994). *Huw Bowen, Margarett Lincoln, Nigel Rigby, The Worlds of the East India Company (Woodbridge,2002) (see esp. essay by Om Prakash on the English East India Company and India).Huw Bowen, The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833 (Cambridge, 2005)Huw Bowen, ‘Privilege and Profit: Commanders of East Indianmen as Private Traders, Entrepreneurs and Smugglers, 1760-1813’, International Journal of Maritime History, 19, 2 (December, 2007), pp.43-88. *Holden Furber, John Company at Work: A Study of European Expansion in India in the Late Eighteenth Century (New York, 1970 [1948]).Soren Mentz, The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City of London, 1660-1740 (Copenhagen, 2005).PrasannanParthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence 1600-1850 (Cambridge, 2011), chapters 2 and 3.Phillip Stern, ‘History and Historiography of the English East India Company: Past Present and Future’ History Compass, 7, 4 (2009), pp. 317-336. Miles Ogborn, Global Lives: Britain and the World 1550-1800 (Cambridge, 2008).Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850 (London, 2005).Natasha Eaton, ‘Between Mimesis and Alterity: Art, Gift and Diplomacy in Colonial India, 1770-1800’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 46 (2004), pp. 816-844. *David Arnold, ‘Agriculture and Improvement’ in Early Colonial India: a Pre-history of Development’, Journal of Agrarian Change, 5, 4 (October, 2005), pp. 505-525. *Javier Cuenca Esteban, ‘Comparative patterns of colonial trade: British and its rivals’, in Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: British and its European Rivals, 1688-1815 (Cambridge, 2004), chap 2, pp. 35-60.Emma Rothschild, The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Princeton, 2011).Documents:John Corneille, Journal of my Service in India(Michael Edwardes (ed.), London, 1966).*Peter Jimack, ed., A History of the Two Indies. A Translated Selection of Writings from Raynal’sHistoire Philosophiqueetpolitique des établissements des Européensdans les DeuxIndes (Ashgate, 2006), Book 3.*Additional Documents: Francis Buchanan, A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar (London, 1807), Introduction and pp. 193-226.*John Ovington, A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689 (London, 1696) [Electronic Resource: ].*Charles Lockyer, An Account of the Trade in India (London, 1711) [Electronic Resource: ].*The French East India CompanySeminar Questions:Compare the structures of the English and French East India Companies.How did the East India Companies meet the risks of long distance trade?Secondary Reading:Donald C. Wellington, French East India Companies: A Historical Account and Record of Trade (Lanham MD: Hamilton Books, 2006).Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (London, 2002), pp. 133-148, 159-170, 242-245.Catherine Manning, ‘French Country Trade on Coromandel, 1720-50’ in OmPrakash (ed.), European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia(Aldershot, 1997), chap. 14.*Catherine Manning, Fortunes à Faire:The French in Asian Trade, 1719-1748 (Aldershot, 1996), chaps 1-3.*F-J.Ruggiu, ‘India and the Reshaping of the French Colonial Policy (1759-89)’, Itinerario, 35 (2011), pp. 25-43.Felicia Gottmann, ‘French-Asian Connections: the Compagnie des Indes, France’s Eastern Trade, and New Directions in Historical Scholarship’, The Historical Journal, 56 (June 2013),pp. 537-552.Further Reading:Peter Jimack, ed., A History of the Two Indies. A Translation Selection of Writing from Raynel’s Histoire PhilosophiqueetPolitique des Etablissements des European dans les deauxIndes (Ashgate, 2007).Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, chap. 2.*Sanjay Subrahmanyam (ed.) Maritime India (Oxford, 2004).Chapters in SushilChaudhury and Michel Morineau,eds., Merchants, Companies and Trade (Cambridge, 1999), chaps. 6, 10, 15 *:Chap 6 – Michel Morineau, ‘Eastern and Western merchants from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, pp. 116-144Chap. 10 - Philippe Haudrère, ‘The French India Company and its trade in the eighteenth century’, pp. 202-211Chap. 15 – Paul Butel, ‘French traders and India at the end of the eighteenth century’, pp. 287-300.Indrani Ray, The French East India Company and the Trade of the Indian Ocean ed. Lakshmi Subramaniam (New Delhi, 1999).Ina B. McCabe, Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism and the AncienRégime (New York, 2008).Felicia Gottmann, ‘Textile Furies- the French State and the Retail and Consumption of Asian Cotton 1686-1759’, in Berg, Goods from the East, pp. 244-258.Documents:Francois Bernier,Travels in the Mughal Empire, pp. 200-238.*The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai, Dubash to Joseph F. Dupleix1736-1761, 12 vols., (Madras, 1922, Reprinted, Chennai, 2005). Selected pages.*Peter Jimack, ed., A History of the Two Indies. A Translated Selection of Writings from Raynal’sHistoire Philosophiqueetpolitique des établissements des Européensdans les DeuxIndes (Ashgate, 2006), Introduction and book 4.*Week 5. The Textile Century: Indian Cottons and European ConsumersSeminar Questions:1.What made Indian cottons desirable for western consumers?2.Why were the Indians unable to keep pace with European industrial production of cotton fabrics?Secondary Readings:K.N.Chaudhuri, AsiaBefore Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, 1990), pp. 297-323.Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient (Minneapolis; London, 1970), chap. 2, pp 79-125.*K.N. Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660-1760 (Cambridge, 1978), chaps. 11 and 12, pp. 237-312.PrasannanParthasarathi, ‘Review of The Great Divergence’, Past and Present, 176, (August 2002). PrasannanParthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not (Cambridge CUP 2011), chap. 4.John Styles, The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven, 2007), Introduction, chap 7, 18.PrasannanParthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not (Cambridge, 2011).Giorgio Riello, Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World(Cambridge 2013) Om Prakash, ‘The Dutch and English East India Companies Trade in Indian Textiles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century: A Comparative Vieew’, in Berg, ed., Goods from the East, pp. 183-194.Further Reading:C.A. Bayly, Rules, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society Society in the Age of British Expansion, 1770-1870 (Cambridge, 1983).PrasannanParthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence 1660-1850 (Cambridge, 2011), chapter 4. RosemaryCrill (ed.), Textiles from India: The Global Trade (Calcutta, 2006).The following chapters:Sujata Parsai, ‘Surat as a Centre of the Textile Trade’, pp. 287-302Donald Clay Johnson, ‘Seventeenth-century Perceptions of the Textile trade as Evidence in the Writings of the Emperor Jahangir and Sir Thomas Roe’, pp. 233-244.*Seema Alavi (ed.), The Eighteenth Century in India: Debates in Indian History and Society(Oxford, 2002), chap. 5 – Om Prakash, ‘ Trade and Politics in Eighteenth-century Bengal’, chap. 7 – PrasannanParthasarathi -‘Merchants and the Rise of Colonialism’.*Jenny Balfour-Paul, ‘India’s Trade in Indigo: its ups and downs’ inJeremy Prestholdt, Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (Berkeley, 2008), pp. 357-374.Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi, The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles (Oxford, 2009).Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy, How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1550-1850 (Leiden, 2009).Tirthankar Roy, ‘Knowledge and Divergence From the Perspective of Early Modern India’, Journal of Global History, 3 (2008), pp. 361-388. *Robert Finlay, ‘Weaving the Rainbow: Visions of Colour in World History’, Journal of World History, 18, 4 (2007), pp. 383-431.*Anne E McCants, ‘Modest Households and Globally Traded Textiles: Evidence from Amsterdam Household Inventories’, The Birth of Modern Europe: Culture and Economy 1400-1800 (2010).*Documents:John Irwin & Margaret Hall, Indian Painted and Printed Fabrics (Ahmedabad, 1971) – Documents:Export Fabrics 17th to 18th Century’; ‘Hangings, Coverlets and Canopies 19th and 20th Centuries;’,pp. 36-48.*John Irwin and K.B. Brett, Origins of Chintz (London, 1970) – ‘Father Coerdoux’s Letters 1742 and 1747, Appendix B; ‘Beaulieu’s Account of the technique of Indian cotton-painting, c. 1734’, Appendix A; ‘The Roxburgh account of Indian cotton-painting, 1795’, Appendix C.Oriental Luxuries: The Chinaware RevolutionSeminar Questions:1. How was porcelain produced and marketed on a global scale?2. Discuss changing European tastes for Chinese and Japanese porcelain. What part did merchants and Companies play in fostering these tastes?.3. How were Western consumers persuaded to accept European substitutes for porcelain?4..How accurate were Jesuit accounts of Asian technologies in the early modern period?Secondary Reading:Maxine Berg, ‘Britain’s Asian Century: Porcelain and Global History in the long eighteenth Century’, paper for Jan de Vries, The Birth of Modern Europe: Culture and Economy 1400-1800(2010).*Robert Finlay, ‘The Pilgrim Art: the Culture of Porcelain in World History’, Journal of World History, 9 (1993), pp. 141-188.Rose Kerr and Nigel Wood, Joseph Needham’sScience & Civilisation in China Vol. 5:12 - Ceramic Technology, pp. 443-454; 740-772.LotharLedderose, Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Are (Princeton, 2000), pp. 75 -101.G.A. Godden, Oriental Export Market Porcelain and its Influence on European Wares (London, 1979).Rosemary E. Scott, ed., The Porcelains of Jingdezhen (London, 1992). This essays: C.J.A. J?rg, ‘Porcelain for the Dutch in the Seventeenth Century: Trading Networks and Private Enterprise’, pp. 183-205.ShelaghVainker, ‘Luxuries or not? Consumption of silk and porcelain in eighteenth Century China’ in M. Berg and E.Eger(eds.) Luxury in the Eighteenth Century (Basingstoke, 2003).Margaret Medley, ‘Organisation and Production at Jingdezhen in the Sixteenth Century’, in Rosemary Scott (ed.), The Porcelains of Jingdezhen (London, 1992), pp. 69-83.Colin D. Sheaf, ‘Chinese Porcelain and Japanese Tea Taste in the Late Ming Period’, in Rosemary Scott (ed.), The Porcelains of Jingdezhen (London, 1992), pp. 165-183.Anne Gerritsen, 'Fragments of a Global Past: Sites of Ceramics Manufacture in Song-Yuan-Ming Jiangxi.' Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient, 2011.Anne Gerritsen and Stephen McDowall ‘Material Culture and the Other: European Encounters with Chinese Porcelain 1650-1800’,Journal of World History, 23, 2012, pp. 87-113.Documents:Robert Tichane, Ching-te-chen: Views of a Porcelain City (New York, 1983):‘Letter I – Pere d’Entrecolles’ chap. 3, pp. 51-112.‘Letter II – Pere d’Entrecolles’ chap. 4 , pp. 113-128.*Stephen W. Bushell, Description of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, being a translation of the T’aoShuo (Oxford, 1910).H. B. Morse, The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, 1635-1834, Vol. 1 (Oxford, 1926), chap. intro., 6, 17*Louis Dermigny, la Chine etL’Occident: Le Commerce a Canton au XVIII Siècle, 1719-1833 (Paris, 1964) – Visual sources.*Week 7. The Tea Trade: Taxes and SmugglersSecondary Reading: Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, Empire of Tea. The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World (London: Reaktion Books, London, 2015), chapters 3-8, pp. 53-178.William Ashworth, Customs and Excise: trade, production and consumption in England, 1640-1845 (Oxford, 2003).Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford, ‘Taxes on Luxury Goods’ in Proceedings of the Datini Institute, 2008.K.Pomeranz and ik,The World that Trade Created: Society Culture and the World Economy, 1400-Present (Armonk, NY, 2006), pp. 160-163.Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800 (Minneapolis; London, 1970), chap. 3, pp. 125-168.*Hoh-cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui, The Management of Monopoly: A Study of the East India Company’s Conduct of its Tea Trade 1784-1833 (Vancouver, 1984), chapter 8. Hoh-Cheung and Lorna H. Mui, ‘Smuggling and the British Tea Trade before 1784’, American Historical Review, vol. 74 (1), 1968, pp. 44-73*Anne McCants, ‘Poor Consumers as Global Consumers: the Diffusion of Tea and Coffee Drinking in the Eighteenth Century’, The Economic History Review, 61 (2008), pp. 172-200.*Maxine Berg, Felicia Gottmann, Hanna Hodacs and Chris Nierstrasz, eds., Trading Eurasia, 1600-1800: Goods from the East. Section four, chs. 20-24.Markman Ellis et. al, ed., Tea and the Tea Table in Eighteenth Century England, 4 vols., (London 2010). This is an edition of primary sources on all aspects of tea culture in England.Documents:Morse, The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China, Vol. 1Charles Lockyer, An Account of the Trade in India. 1711[Jonas Hanway]. A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon thames…to which is added, An Essay on Tea… (London, 1756). Princes and Traders: The Macartney Embassy to ChinaSeminar Questions:Did the Macartney Embassy reveal a clash of understanding over the role of ‘goods’ in global connections?Discuss the political and cultural significance of the Macartney Embassy to Britain and Europe. What was its legacy?Secondary Reading:James Hevia, Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 (Durham, 1995) See also reviews in the American Historical Review.*Robert Bickers(ed.),Ritual and Diplomacy: the Macartney Mission to China, 1792-1794 (London, 1993). Simon Schaffer, ‘Instruments as Cargo in the China Trade’, History of Science, 44 (2006), pp. 1-30Maxine Berg, ‘Britain, Industry and Perceptions of China: Matthew Boulton, ‘Useful Knowledge’ and the Macartney Embassy to China 1792-4’, Journal of Global History, 1, 2 (2006), pp. 269-288.David MacKay, In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science and Empire 1780-1801 (London, 1985)Documents:Sir George Staunton, An Abridged account of the embassy to the Emperor of China undertaken by order of the King of Great Britain (London, 1797), Electronic resource on ECCO.*H.B. Morse, Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China 1635-1834 (1926), Vol. 2 Appendixes G, I, J and K.Visual Sources:G.B. Mason, Costume of China. *Week 8Science and Empire: Botany and PlantationsSeminar Questions:Was science an agent of empire in the early modern period?What factors promoted and subsequently inhibited technological dynamism in parts of Asia during the period of European East India Company trade and the early colonial period?Secondary Reading:U. Hilleman, Asian Empire and British Knowledge: China and the Networks of British Imperial Expansion (Cambridge, 2009).Joel Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850(New Haven; Yale University Press, 2009), chapters 1-3. See review by M. Berg, TLS. Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe 1650-1900 (Palgrave, 2007) Chapter 1 – Surgeons, Fakirs, Merchants and Craftsmen: Making L’Empereur’sJardinin Early Modern South Asia’ and Chapter 2 – ‘Circulation and the Emergence of Modern Mapping: Great Britain and Early Colonial India, 1764-1820’.Richard Drayton, Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial British and the Improvement of the World (New Haven, 2000), chap. 3. Maxine Berg, Useful Knowledge, 'industrial enlightenment' and the place of India, Journal of Global History, 8:1 (2013), pp. 117-141.Further Reading:Simon Schaffer et. al. (eds.), The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820 (Sagamore BeachMA, 2009).Alix Cooper, Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2007).Neil Chambers, Joseph Banks and the British Museum: The World of Collection 1770-1830 (London, 2007).Harold J. Cook, Matters of Exchange. Commerce, Medicine and Science in the Dutch Golden Age (New Haven, 2007)Jan DeVries, Reviews of Harold J Cook, Matters of Exchange and Anne Goldcar, Tulipmania, American Historical Review, 113, 2 (April, 2008), pp. 438-441. *John F. Richards, The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (Berkeley, 2003).Richard Drayton, Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the Improvement of the World(New Haven; London, 2000), Chapter 3Neil A. Chambers, Joseph Banks and the British Museum: The World of Collecting, 1770-1830(London, 2002) Chapters 1 and 2.Stefan Halikowski Smith, ‘Perceptions of Nature in Early Modern Portuguese India’, Itinerario, 31/2 (2007). *William Gervase Clarence-Smith, ‘Scientific and Technological Interchanges Between the Islamic World and Europe, c. 1450-c 1800’ in SimonettaCavaciocchi (ed.),?Relazionieconomichetra Europa e mondoislamico, secc. XIII-XVIII [Europe's economic relations with the Islamic world, 13th-18th centuries], Vol. 2.?(Prato, 2007), pp. 719-737.Simon Schaffer, ‘Newton on the Beach: A Genealogy and Solitude’. *Science and Global History, 1750-1850: Local Encounters and Global Circulation, A Special Issue of Itinerario, 33 (2009)PrasannanParthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence 1600-1850 (Cambridge, 2011), chapter 7.*Documents: Anton Hove, Tours for Scientific & Economical Research Made in Guzerat, Kaltiwar& the Conkins 1787-8. *Final Essay Writing WorkshopWeek 9. Ships and Sailors; Pirates and Captives.Seminar Questions:1.Was piracy ever a serious threat to the development of global trade?pare the backgrounds and capabilities of European and Asian sailors.3.Were ‘captives’ agents of commercial and cultural interchange?4.Do captive narratives provide insight into cultural encounter?Secondary Reading:K. Pomeranz and S. Topik, The World that Trade Created: Society Culture and the World Economy, 1400-Present (Armonk, NY, 2006), pp. 41-45, 47-49,154-156, 165-167.K.N.Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History From the Rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, 1985), chaps. 6, 7.Conrad Gill, Merchants and Mariners of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1961).Anne Péroptin-Dumon, ‘The Pirate and the Emperor: Power and the Law on the Seas, 1450-1850’ in James D. Tracy (ed.), The Political Economy of Merchant Empires (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 196-227. Miles Ogborn, ‘A Search for Sovereignty. Law and Geography inEuropean Empires 1400-1900’, American Historical Review 117 (2012), pp. 814-16.Lauren Be nton, "Toward a New Legal History of Piracy: Maritime Legalities and the Myth of Universal Jurisdiction," International Journal of Maritime History XXIII, No. 1 (2011): 1-15.Sebastian Prange, ‘A Trade of No Dishonour: Piracy, Commerce and Community in the Western Indian Ocean 12th to 16th Centuries’ American Historical Review, 116 (2011), pp.1269-1293. *Linda Colley, Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (London, 2002), chapters 2, 3 and 8.Linda Colley, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (London, 2007), Intro. andchaps. 4-7.David Cannadine (ed.), Empire, the Sea and Global History: Britain’s Maritime World, c.1760-c.1840 (Basingstoke, 2007), chapters by Philip Morgan ‘Black Experiences in Britain’s Maritime World’ and Stephen Conway, ‘Empire, Europe and British Naval Power’.Further Reading:Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (Cambridge, 1987).Jaap R. Bruijn and Femme S. Gaastra, Ships, Sailors and Spices. East India Companies and their Shipping in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries, (Amsterdam, 1993).Charles Adams (ed.), The Narrative of Robert Adams, a Barbary Captive (Cambridge, 2005).Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston, 2000), chap. 5, pp. 143-173.John Darwin, Review of Linda Colley’s The Ordeal of Elizabeth March, TLS (October, 2007). *Derek L. Elliott, ‘Pirates, Polities and Companies: Global Politics on the Konkan Littoral, c.1690-1756’, LSE Working Paper 136/10 (March 2010). Available online: *Documents:Anonymous (Mrs Crisp), The Female Captive: A Narrative of Facts which Happened in Barbary, in the year 1756 (London, 1769) – Available as an electronic resource on ECCO.*Cartography, Sea Charts, and Cook’s Third VoyageSeminar Questions:Compare Western and Eastern map-making techniques and capabilities.Explain how Europeans achieved a better understanding of the sea and its weather systems.Was technology transmitted along with the exchange of material objects?Secondary Reading:Peter Barder and Tom Harper, Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art (London; British Library, 2010)Chandra Mukerji, ‘Cartography, Entrepreneurialism and Power in the Reign of Louis XIV’, in P. Smith and P. Findlen, Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe (New York, 2002), pp. 248-277. *Nicholas Thomas, Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook (London, 2003). Intro.and chaps. 1 & 2.Benjamin Schmidt, ‘Inventing Exoticism’, in Smith and Findlen, Merchants and Marvels, pp. 347-369.*Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution 1700-1850 (Oxford, 2000) Chaps. 4 and 5.Andrew S. Cook, ‘Establishing the Sea Routes to India and China: Stages in the Development of Hydrographical Knowledge’, in H. Bowen, M. Lincoln and N. Rigby, The Worlds of the East India Company (Woodbridge, 2002), pp. 119-136.D. Cannadine (ed.),Empire, the Sea and Global History: Britain’s Maritime World, c.1760-1840 (Basingstoke, 2007), the following chapters:P.J. Marshall, ‘Empire and British Identity: the Maritime Dimension’Richard Drayton, ‘Maritime Networks and the Making of Knowledge’Simon Schaffer, ‘Instruments, Surveys and Maritime Empire’David Mackay, In the Wake of Cook, chapters 3, 4.Robin Fisher, Contact and Conflict: Ino-European Relations in British Columbia 1774-1890 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995).Bronwen Douglas, ‘Voyages, Encounters and Agency in Oceania: Captain Cook and Indigenous People’, History Compass (2008) 6/3, pp. 712-737.Further Reading:Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World (London, 2007). A fine novel about Humboldt and Gauss.Evelyn Edson, The World Map, 1300 – 1492:The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation (Baltimore, 2007). Laura Hostetler, Qing Colonial Enterprise. Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China (Chicago, 2001), Intro.Documents:James Cook, ‘Third Voyage of Discovery to the Pacific Ocean, and for Exploring the Northern Hemisphere’, in Captain Cook’s Voyages of Discovery, ed. John Barrow (London: J.M. Dent, n.d.), pp. 339-384Captain Cook’s Final Voyage: the Journal of Midshipman George Gilbert, ed. by Christine Holmes (Horsham, Sussex: Caliban Books 1982), chapter 3, pp. 67-98. Maps between pp. 17 and 18, and between 91 and 92.Week 10.Final Essay PresentationsResourcesGeneral Online Databases:Making of the Modern World (Goldsmith’s-Kress) - – probably the best database for Treasure Fleets primary documents. A quick search for ‘East India Company’ between 1600-1800 returns over 1700 results of official records and other contemporary accounts. So there is a lot here!Early English Books Online (EEBO) - Century Collections Online (ECCO) - Gutenberg Online Book Catalogue– - Can download in text format William Dampier’s Books, A Voyage to New Holland and A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland.Early Modern Resources Gateway - - lots of great resources and links for all aspects of early modern history. Some Asian history links, commodity and trade links.Empire Online – empire.amdigital.co.uk - there’s some really interesting material here, especially in the ‘Visible Empire’ section. However the vast majority of it is nineteenth century. There are some good seventeenth century travel journals though – Abel Tasman, William Dampier etc. (search for East India Company under 17th century). Also, there’s a particularly good catalogue of European trade with the far East from 1792.Margot Finn’s ESRC-funded project, 'Colonial Possessions: Personal Property and Social Identity in British India'.? This focuses on the premise that the exchange and consumption of European and Asian material goods fundamentally shaped Anglo-Indian family life and social identities in the decades that preceded the imposition of Crown rule in 1858.? The project combines quantitative and qualitative analysis of primary source data (diaries, memoirs, private correspondence, probate inventories and wills) to provide an integrated analysis of select aspects of Anglo-Indians' engagement with consumer society.? A searchable database of information derived from the inventories and wills, accompanied by a substantial User Guide, has been compiled. The materials are available online from the UK Data Archive (Study # 5254), at .? The Modern History Sourcebook - - (particularly Asian sections).House of Commons Parliamentary Papers - - heaps of stuff on the East India CompanyWorld and Global History:See the GHCC Website Links Section mainly – of particular interest though: See this site before anything else - World History Links - - there are heaps and heaps of links for world history and related fields. Good section of Maps and Geographic links too. - list of particular world history related projectsChina and Europe: What is Modern? (Pomeranz and Bin Wong) - introduction to global history theory and multiple modernities.Some really good videos.Historical Maps:webimages - start here for map searching. Really extensive cartography gateway.South Asia Maps - - really good site, probably the most useful, as most of the images are very high resolution. All time periods covered, lots of countries and regions in South Asia, East Asia, Indian Ocean. Some examples:- Mallet’s Description de l’univers - Nuremberg Chronicle - Online illustrations by Bellin from Provost’s Histoire générale des Voyages - - lots of images of south asia, china, japan, including maps.Perry-Casta?eda Library Map Collection, University of Texas Austin – - again really great site because of high resolution images. Use the Historical Maps section, most are after our period but there are still some relevant images. Good selection of historical world maps. Also lots of modern political and geographic maps which may be of use.Hebrew University of Jerusalem - - This site contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web. Good Links section.BNF - views of Macao - Maps - - small collection of maps from the renaissance period, may be of some use.National Library of Australia’s Digital Map Collection - .au/map– amazing collection, every map you could ever wish for! Lots of Indian ocean, asia in general.Images: See the Library’s History Useful Websites section under images.Early Modern Resources, Images - Image Gallery - - access to thousands of useful images, large searchable database.Library of Congress - Atlas of Mutual Heritage - atlasofmutualheritage.nl – maps, drawings, prints and paintings of VOC locations. Zoomable online but not downloadable in high quality. See Johan Nieuhof’s drawings in particular. Museums:National Maritime Museum Collections Online - - Have fantastic collections of maritime resources online (particularly maps). Again able to view high quality online but not to download.British Library – obviously lots here. Check the ‘Trading Places’ seminar, and the ‘Learning’ sections for some useful resources. ‘Trading Places’ resource at the British Library - Places Seminar India Companies Websites:Maritime Lanka – Good overview of the maritime history of Sri Lanka.Contains some general information on European/asian contacts. – huge image collection, lots of other useful information, from National Maritime Museum. work in progress database.When completed it will provide information on all the ships, voyages and seafarers of the East India Company's mercantile services. - brilliant list of links to VOC resources. Very long! - rise of the British Empire website. See the rise of the empire section. Some primary sources and pictures.‘An essay on the East-India Trade’ by Charles D’Avenant, 1697 - - Dutch and Portuguese colonial history website. Lots of resources on different aspects of European colonialism, chronologies, photos. The extensive links section here is particularly useful. - Website detailing the history of the Dutch East India Company ship the Duyfken.History of Danish East India Company - of Swedish East India Ship Gotheburg - Topics:James Ford Bell Library Trade Products - - information and pictures for a variety of trade products in early modern England. Trade Routes Resources Blog - - part of The Old World Trade Routes Project (OWTRAD) - - lots and lots of resources on many different trade routes. Including information and maps on pan-Asian routes, Indian ocean routes, slavery and commodity resources.JournalsJournal of World History - of Global History - of Interdisciplinary History - of Asian Studies - of Asian History – – of the Economic and Social History of the Orient - History Review ................
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