Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- General editor's preface
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 India in the Indian Ocean trade, circa 1500
- 2 The Portuguese in India, 1500–1640
- 3 The European trading companies: exports from Europe and the generation of purchasing power in Asia
- 4 The companies in India: the politics and the economics of trade
- 5 Euro-Asian and intra-Asian trade: the phase of Dutch domination, 1600–1680
- 6 The VOC and the growing competition by the English and the French, 1680–1740
- 7 The supremacy of the English East India Company, 1740–1800
- 8 European trade and the Indian economy
- 9 Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
- Misc-endmatter
- Map 1 Important trading centres in Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"
- Map 2 Portuguese seaborne empire, c. 1580"
- Map 3 The Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, showing the settlements of the English East India Company and of other European nations"
- Map 4 India: main textile–weaving areas, 1600–1750"
General editor's preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- General editor's preface
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 India in the Indian Ocean trade, circa 1500
- 2 The Portuguese in India, 1500–1640
- 3 The European trading companies: exports from Europe and the generation of purchasing power in Asia
- 4 The companies in India: the politics and the economics of trade
- 5 Euro-Asian and intra-Asian trade: the phase of Dutch domination, 1600–1680
- 6 The VOC and the growing competition by the English and the French, 1680–1740
- 7 The supremacy of the English East India Company, 1740–1800
- 8 European trade and the Indian economy
- 9 Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
- Misc-endmatter
- Map 1 Important trading centres in Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"
- Map 2 Portuguese seaborne empire, c. 1580"
- Map 3 The Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, showing the settlements of the English East India Company and of other European nations"
- Map 4 India: main textile–weaving areas, 1600–1750"
Summary
The New Cambridge History of India covers the period from the beginning of the sixteenth century. In some respects it marks a radical change in the style of Cambridge Histories, but in others the editors feel that they are "working firmly within an established academic tradition.
During the summer of 1896, F.W. Maitland and Lord Acton between them evolved the idea for a comprehensive modern history. By the end of the year the Syndics of the University Press had committed themselves to the Cambridge Modern History, and Lord Acton had been put in charge of it. It was hoped that publication would begin in 1899 and be completed by 1904, but the first volume in fact came out in 1902 and the last in 1910, with additional volumes of tables and maps in 1911 and 1912.
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- European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India , pp. xiv - xvPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998