Europe's Asian Centuries (The University of Warwick)

Europe's Asian Centuries (The University of Warwick) Europe's Asian Centuries - Trading Eurasia 1600-1830 is a research project at the University of Warw

The twenty-first century has seen a new Asian ascendancy: Europe has lost those manufacturing catalysts of textiles, ceramics and metal goods back to Asia. This project seeks to understand Europe’s new challenge of Asia by charting the history of that first global shift between the pre-modern and modern worlds. The project engages the principal investigator, Professor Maxine Berg; three postdoctor

al fellows, Felicia Gottmann, Hanna Hodacs, and Chris Nierstrasz; a PhD student, Meike Fellinger; and a museums' consultant, Helen Clifford, in a comparative study of Europe’s trade with India and China in quality textiles, porcelain and other fine manufactured goods. The researchers draws on the records of Europe’s East India companies, records of private traders, and major museum collections, and conduct comparative case studies including the English, Dutch, French and Scandinavian companies. The project compares Europe’s trade with India in high quality textiles and other fine manufactured goods with its trade with China in porcelain and other consumer and luxury goods using the records of Europe’s East India companies and major museum collections of export-ware objects. The Principal Investigator researches the English East India Company together with the PhD student, and leads the three postdoctoral fellows in comparative case studies on other European companies, especially the Dutch, French, and Scandinavian companies.

08/08/2016

The project finished in 2010 but lives on in its various outputs.

Our website includes several databases all freely available to the public, on English and Dutch East India Company orders, Swedish Company auctions catalogues, as well as a searchable glossary for East Asian textiles. Check the 'databases' tab on our website:
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/eac/

All of our books have now been published! You can find them here: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/series/14978

They are (in order of publication date):

Our jointly-edited volume, Goods from the East - http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137403933 =9781349562183

Chris Nierstrasz', Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles - http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137486523 =9781349571567

Felicia Gottmann's, Global Trade, Smuggling, and the Making of Economic Liberalism - http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137444875

and

Hanna Hodacs' Silk and Tea in the North - http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137455437

26/01/2012

Exciting upcoming events in the next few weeks:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/eac/events/upcoming_events/


Cafe of Coffeehouse? Transnational Histories of Coffee & Sociability
Seminar with Brian Cowan, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Early Modern British History, McGill University
http://www.mcgill.ca/history/brian-cowan
Thursday 1st March, Humanities Building H303, 5-7pm



The Trial of the Indies: How to Develop a Symmetric System of Knowledge
Seminar with Stephane van Damme, Associate Professor of History, Sciences-PO & Romain Bertrand, Senior Research Fellow in Centre of International Studies & Research, Sciences-Po
Wednesday 14th March, Humanities Building H102, 5-7pm
http://chsp.sciences-po.fr/en/chercheur-du-centre/van-damme
http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/cherlist/bertrand.php
http://epreuvedesindes.hypotheses.org/a-propos

18/11/2011

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