The Loss of the "Trades Increase" : : An Early Modern Maritime Catastrophe / / Richmond Barbour.
Was it the Titanic of its age?Christened by an optimistic King James I in December 1609, the Trades Increase was the greatest English merchant vessel of the Jacobean era—a magnificent ship embodying the hopes of the nascent East India Company to claim a commanding share of the Eastern trade. But the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 15 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on the Title
- Abbreviations of Major Primary Sources
- Introduction. The Charter Generation of the London East India Company
- Chapter 1. The Construction and Launch of the Trades Increase, 1609
- Chapter 2. From England to Arabia Felix
- Chapter 3. Captivity in Yemen
- Chapter 4. To India and Back Again
- Chapter 5. Corporate Strife in the Red Sea
- Chapter 6. The Final Transit
- Chapter 7. Catastrophe in Bantam
- Chapter 8. Controversy over the East Indian Trade, 1615
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments