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100	1		_aBrescius, Meike von, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPrivate Enterprise and the China Trade : _bMerchants and Markets in Europe, 1700-1750 / _cMeike von Brescius.
246	3		_aMerchants and Markets in Europe, 1700-1750
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBrill, _c2022.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aLibrary of Economic History ; _v16
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAcknowledgements -- List of 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 -- 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 -- 4.1 Britons Abroad, Interlopers at Home: Transnational Careers in the Making -- 5 Flexible Citizens: Nomads of the Canton Trade -- 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 -- 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 -- 4 European Geographies of Private Trade  Cadiz as a Cross-Company Hub -- 2 Port Cities, Merchant Communities and the Study of Networks -- 3 The Vanguards -- 4 Flows of Silver from a Network Perspective -- 5 The Cadiz Merchant Community and the China Trade -- 6 Cadiz as an entrepôt -- 7 Company Recruitments and Passenger Traffic to China -- 8 Financing the Private Trade -- 9 Sea Loans and the Cross-Company Money Market -- 10 Entangled cities of the China trade: Cadiz, Antwerp and Amsterdam -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aThis 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 records, it analyses the making of pan-European markets, distribution networks and patterns of investment that together reveal a new geography of a trading system previously studied mostly at Canton. By considering the interloping activities of British-born merchants working for the smaller East India Companies, the book uncovers the commercial practices and cross-Company collaborations, both legal and illicit, that sustained the growth of the China trade: smuggling, wholesale trading, private commissions and the manipulation of Company auctions.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aFree enterprise _zChina.
650		0	_aIndustrial policy _zChina.
650		0	_aPrivatization _zChina.
650		0	_aFree enterprise _zChina _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aFree enterprise _zEurope _xHistory _y18th century.
651		0	_aChina _xCommerce _zEurope.
651		0	_aEurope _xCommerce _zChina.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tPrivate Enterprise and the China Trade : Merchants and Markets in Europe, 1700-1750. _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022 _z9789004369146 _w(DLC) 2006036919 _w(OCoLC)76074110
830		0	_aLibrary of Economic History ; _v16.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004504745
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