Our research is about the trade in material goods from Asia to Europe over this period, and its impact on Europe’s consumer and industrial cultures. It entails a comparative study of Europe’s East India Companies and the private trade from Asia over the period. The commodities trade was heavily dependent on private trade. The historiography to date has left a blind spot in this area, concentrating instead on corruption and malfeasance. Taking a global history approach we investigate the trade in specific consumer goods in many qualities and varieties that linked merchant communities and stimulated information flows. We set out how private trade functioned alongside and in connection with the various European East India companies; we investigate how this changed over time, how it drew on the Company infrastructure, and how it took the risks and developed new and niche markets for specific Asian commodities that the Companies could not sustain.udud
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机译:我们的研究是关于这段时期从亚洲到欧洲的物料贸易,以及对欧洲消费者和工业文化的影响。它需要对该时期的欧洲东印度公司和亚洲私人贸易进行比较研究。大宗商品贸易严重依赖私人贸易。迄今为止,史学在该领域已成为一个盲点,而是集中于腐败和渎职行为。我们采用全球历史的方法来研究特定品质的消费品贸易,这些品质和品种将商人社区联系在一起并刺激了信息流动。我们阐述了私人贸易如何与欧洲东印度公司一起运作以及如何与之联系。我们调查了这种情况随时间的变化,它如何利用公司的基础设施以及如何承担风险并为公司无法承受的特定亚洲商品开发了新的利基市场。 ud ud
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