Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- 5 The Columbian Exchange
- 6 The slave trade and the African diaspora
- 7 The organization of trade in Europe and Asia, 1400–1800
- 8 Entrepreneurs, families, and companies
- 9 Silver in a global context, 1400–1800
- 10 Dutch and English trade to the East: the Indian Ocean and the Levant, to about 1700
- 11 Plantation societies
- 12 Industrious revolutions in early modern world history
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
10 - Dutch and English trade to the East: the Indian Ocean and the Levant, to about 1700
from Part Two - Trade, Exchange, and Production
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- 5 The Columbian Exchange
- 6 The slave trade and the African diaspora
- 7 The organization of trade in Europe and Asia, 1400–1800
- 8 Entrepreneurs, families, and companies
- 9 Silver in a global context, 1400–1800
- 10 Dutch and English trade to the East: the Indian Ocean and the Levant, to about 1700
- 11 Plantation societies
- 12 Industrious revolutions in early modern world history
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
Summary
By about 1700, the Dutch East India Company i.e. Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) and the English East India Company (EIC) achieved dominant positions in certain sectors of trade in the Indian Ocean region. This chapter deals with the indigenous trading communities and who were their partners and more often their rivals. Increased demand in West Asia for the spices procured by Gujarati merchants at Aceh created a trade circuit that spanned the Indian Ocean, with its mid-point in Surat. The British advantage was that England had in abundance what the Dutch lacked, a store of home-produced light woolens, suitable for crowding out the more expensive Venetian cloth that had an established market in the Levant. By the middle decades of the seventeenth century, Levant Company ships controlled traffic between Italy and the eastern Mediterranean, with only minor competition from the Dutch.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 240 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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