Title Silk and tea in the north : Scandinavian trade and the market for Asian goods in eighteenth-century Europe / Hanna Hodacs

Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) Series Europe's Asian Centuries Europe's Asian centuries. Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Colour Plates; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Global, European and Scandinavian Histories and the East India Trade; Following tea and silk to the North; Global history and the Scandinavian Eurasian trade; Early-modern consumption in Europe and Scandinavia; Useful knowledge, material culture and change; Outline of the book; 1 The Scandinavian Trade with China; Excitement, speculations and rumours; Histories of the Scandinavian East India companies; The same but different; Overlapping sources 2 Dusty, Ready-blended Tea from the North; Scandinavian smuggled goods and the British tea market; Swift dealings greased by silver; Assessing, negotiating and blending tea like the Swedes; Packing and tracking the cargo; Competition and transparency on the European tea market; A European taste convergence; Conclusion; 3 A Colourful Cargo for a Motley People; Silk and European fashion; Chinese silk close up; Irregular and diverging; Controversial populuxe; Colours by name; Fluctuating colours and fixed assortments; Conclusion; 4 Transferring and Substituting Tea and Colours; Inventing Canton Kings tea and Cape tea; From China to India, via Sweden; Global dyes and local colours; Universal colours and synthetic dyes; Conclusion; 5 Conclusion -- New Chronologies and Geographies; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Index Summary This book links the trade of the Danish and Swedish East India companies to the British taste for tea, a Scandinavian craving for colourful Chinese silk textiles, import substitutions schemes and natural history in the eighteenth century. It is a global history exploring the exchange of silver for goods in Canton. It is also a European history studying the wholesale market for Asian goods in Gothenburg and Copenhagen, the formation of taste and the impact of fashion in the blending of tea and the assortments of colours on wrought silk destined for markets across Europe. Linking material history to political economy and the histories of science, this book ends on the threshold of the nineteenth century, the rise of the second British Empire in Asia, and the creation of synthetic dyes in Europe Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 6, 2016) Subject East India Company -- History -- 18th century SUBJECT East India Company fast Subject Tea -- Europe -- History -- 18th century Silk -- Europe -- History -- 18th century European history. Social & cultural history. Asian history. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs. Commerce Silk Tea SUBJECT Europe -- Commerce -- Asia -- History -- 18th century Asia -- Commerce -- Europe -- History -- 18th century Subject Asia Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016429155 ISBN 9781137455444 1137455446

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