European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia

Om Prakash,

Contents: Introduction; The Portuguese: Navigation between Portugal and Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries, T. Bentley Duncan; The Portuguese in the seas of the Archipelago during the 16th century, Luis Filipe F. R. Thomaz; The Coromandel Malacca trade in the 16th century: a study of its evolving structure, Sanjay Subrahmanyam; Portuguese country traders in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea c.1600, George B. Souza; The Portuguese and the Dutch: The maritime trade of Indonesia: 1500-1800, Arun Das Gupta; Trade in a culturally hostile environment: Europeans in the Japan trade, 1550-1700, Om Prakash; The Dutch: The Dutch East India company and its Coromandel trade 1700-1740, Sinnappah Arasaratnam; The Dutch East India Company and its intra-Asiatic trade in precious metals, Femme S. Gaastra; Trade between Mughal India and the Middle East, and Mughal monetary policy, c.1600-1660, H. W. van Santen; Dutch commercial policy and interests in the Malay Penninsula, 1750-1795, Sinnappah Arasaratnam; The English: The trade of the English East India Company in the Far East, 1623-1684, D. K. Bassett; Private British trade in the Indian Ocean before 1800, P. J. Marshall; British ’country’ trade and local trade networks in the Thai and Malay states, c.1680-1770, D. K. Bassett; The French: French country trade on Coromandel, 1720-1750, Catherine Manning; The Danish: The Danish Asia trade, 1620-1807: value and volume, Ole Feldbaek; Index.