Private Enterprise and the China Trade : : Merchants and Markets in Europe, 1700-1750 / / Meike von Brescius.

• Superior document: Library of Economic History Series ; Volume 16
• VerfasserIn: Brescius, Meike von,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of economic history ; Volume 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 pages)

"This book examines the European commercial landscape of the early China trade, c.1700-1750. It looks at the foundational period of Sino-European commerce and explores a world of private enterprise beneath the surface of the official East India Company structures. Using rich private trade recor...

Table of Contents

• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Figures and Tables
• Introduction: Contextualising the Early China Trade in Europe
• 1 Commercial Polymaths: Supercargoes and Interlopers in the China Trade
• 2 Trading Conditions in Canton
• 3 Private Trade and Monopoly Structures: A Network Perspective
• 4 The Archives of Private Trade: How to Assess the (In)visible
• 5 Source Material
• 6 Structure of the Study
• Chapter 1 British Interlopers in the Canton Trade: A Group Portrait
• 1 Charles Irvine: Canton Supercargo, Wholesale Trader, Family Patron
• 2 Irvine's Wider Network
• 3 Ways into the China Trade
• 4 New Companies and Old India Traders: The Demise of the Ostend and the Rise of the Swedish East India Company
• 5 Britons Abroad, Interlopers at Home: Transnational Careers in the Making
• 6 Flexible Citizens: Nomads of the Canton Trade
• Chapter 2 Forging Markets: The European Re-Export Trade in Chinese Goods
• 1 Private Trade: Regulations and Realities
• 2 The Companies' Profits from Private Trade
• 3 Public Sales, Private Agreements
• 4 The Re-Export Trade
• Chapter 3 Treasures in the Cabin: Chinese Export Wares and the Special Commissions Trade
• 1 Chinese Export Wares and the Market for Private Commissions
• 2 Typology of Commissioners in the China Trade
• 3 Families and Consumers Associated with the East India Companies
• 4 Commanders and Supercargoes as Consumers, Suppliers and Entrepreneurs
• 5 Designs Made for Maritime Mobility
• 6 Making Room for Private Trade
• Chapter 4 European Geographies of Private Trade: Cadiz as a Cross-Company Hub
• 1 Port Cities, Merchant Communities and the Study of Networks
• 2 The Vanguards
• 3 Flows of Silver from a Network Perspective
• 4 The Cadiz Merchant Community and the China Trade
• 5 Cadiz as an Entrepôt.
• 6 Company Recruitments and Passenger Traffic to China
• 7 Financing the Private Trade
• 8 Sea Loans and the Cross-Company Money Market
• 9 Entangled Cities of the China Trade: Cadiz, Antwerp and Amsterdam
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Manuscript Sources
• Europe
• United States
• Printed Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• Digital Resources
• Index.