Merchants, Companies and Trade : Europe and Asia in the early modern era / edited by Sushil Chaudhury and Michel Morineau.

Essays based on papers presented at the international seminar on "Merchants, Companies, and Trade : the Asian and European Scene in the Indian Context, 16th-18th Century" organized at the Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, in 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Introduction Sushil Chaudhury and Michel Morineau -- Part I. Asia Especially Around 1500: 1. Of what world system was pre-1500 'India' a part? Ravi Arvind Palat and Immanuel Wallerstein -- 2. Trade in the Indian Ocean at the dawn of the sixteenth century Genevieve Bouchon -- Part II. Routes, Markets and Merchants: 3. The route through Quandahar: the significance of the overland trade from India to the West in the seventeenth century Niels Steensgaard -- 4. The Armenian merchant network: overall autonomy and local integration Michel Aghassian and Keram Kevonian -- 5. Commercial relations between India and the Ottoman Empire (late fifteenth to late eighteenth centuries) Gilles Veinstein -- 6. Eastern and Western merchants from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Michel Morineau -- 7. The other 'species' world: specification of commodities and moneys, and the knowledge-base of commerce, 1500-1900 -- Part III. European Presence in Asia: 8. The Portuguese and the Dutch in Asian maritime trade: a comparative analysis Om Prakash -- 9. Competition or collaboration? Relations between the Dutch East India Company and Indian merchants around 1680 F. S. Gaastra -- 10. The French India Company and its trade in the eighteenth century Philippe Haudrere -- 11. Sweden and India in the eighteenth century: Sweden's difficulty in gaining access to a crowded market C. Koninckx -- 12. The ambition of the Austrian empire with reference to East India during the last quarter of the eighteenth century Helma Houtman de Smedt -- Part IV. Implications of Trade: Asia and Europe: 13. The Indian challenge: sixteenth and eighteenth centuries Michel Morineau -- 14. The changing pattern of British trade in Indian textiles, 1701-1757 Dietmar Rothermund -- 15. French traders at the end of the eighteenth century Paul Butel -- 16. The Asian merchants and companies in Bengal's export trade circa mid-eighteenth century Sushil Chaudhury.